Barbara Donahue Webster is an American botanist and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is a past president of the Botanical Society of America, of which she also served as first female treasurer, and a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society for Horticultural Science. She has served as editor of the journal Madroño .
In 2008 she was awarded the Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America, the society's highest honor. [1] [2]