Wesley M Knapp

Wesley Martin Knapp is a regional botanist with the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program. Originally from New Hampshire, Knapp is an expert in North American plants belonging to the Cyperaceae (sedges) and Juncaceae (rushes). Knapp has published research in journals including: Systematic Botany, the Botanical Research Institute of Texas [6], Evansia, and Opuscula Philolicheum.

In 2016, Wes was given the apt title as the "Indiana Jones of Maryland botanists" in an article about the rediscovery of Solidago rupestris in Maryland. He was then given the title, perhaps erroneously, as the "Indiana Jones of U.S. Botanists" by the Toronto Star as the article was picked up by additional news outlets.