John Michael Watson

{{Short description|British botanist}}

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John Michael Watson (1936 – 14 June 2024){{Cite web |date=2024-06-15 |title=John Watson – RIP |url=https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=19560.0 |access-date=2025-01-22 |website=Scottish Rock Garden Club}} was an English botanist, who has worked with the flora of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. He visited the Ruiz Leal Herbarium in Mendoza, Argentina.{{Cite journal|last=Watson|first=John M|date=31 December 2009|title=A new and rare rosulate species of Viola (Violaceae) from Argentina|url=https://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2009/f/p00002p023f.pdf|journal=Phytotaxa|volume=2|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.2.1.3}}

He married his colleague Ana Rosa Flores [es] in 1994, owning the botanic nursery business Flores & Watson Seeds. They took on various trips to collect specimens from Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.{{Cite book|last=Ward|first=Bobby J.|title=The plant hunter's garden: the new explorers and their discoveries|year=2004|isbn=0881926965|pages=}}