Species Reichardia decapetala

For Johann Jakob (Jacob) Reichard (1743–1782), German physician and botanist. From 1768, he was a civil doctor at the hospital in Frankfurt am Main, and was also responsible for Frankfurt’s first botanical garden, created in 1773–1774 by the Senckenberg Foundation (founded by Johann Christian Senckenberg, 1707–1772). This garden served as a hortus medicus for the cultivation of medicinal herbs for the foundation’s public hospital and medical institute. Reichard authored Flora Moeno-Frankfurtana (The Flora of Frankfurt) (1772–1778) and Syolloge, Opusculorum Botanicorum (1782); edited a medical weekly paper (1780–1791); and also edited and co-authored several of Linnaeus’s works, including Genera Plantarum (1778) and Sytema Planetarium (1787).