Anne Mary Perceval

Anne Mary Perceval (née Flower) was born on 14 January 1790 in London, England. She was the daughter of Sir Charles Flower, who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1808 to 1809, and his wife, Anne Squire. Her father was created a baronet in 1809.

Perceval married Michael Henry Perceval, after which she moved to Quebec City in 1810 when her husband was appointed as a customs collector. In 1815, the couple acquired Spencer Wood, a property where Perceval established a garden focused on native plants of the region.

During her time in Lower Canada, she engaged in botanical collection and identification. She cataloged approximately 150 plant species from her collection and communicated these findings to William Jackson Hooker, a prominent botanist who included them in his work *Flora boreali-americana*, which documents the botany of the northern regions of British America. Additionally, she maintained correspondence with botanist John Torrey.

The plants collected by Perceval are part of various natural history collections, including repositories in Canada, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.

Perceval returned to Britain in 1828 following the death of her husband. She died at Lews Castle on the Isle of Lewis, in Stornoway, on 23 November 1876, at the age of 86.