Dr. M. Patrick Griffith is a botanist and explorer that has led Montgomery Botanical Center since 2005—developing the team, focusing resources, and setting priorities to meet the mission.

Patrick has worked in leadership, living collections management, herbarium curation, rare plant survey, floristic inventory, laboratory research, and land management, and for botanic gardens, universities, government, and private interests.

Patrick’s research is in plant systematics and plant conservation, and is focused on living botanical collections.

As Executive Director, Patrick works to define, strengthen and promote an important contribution that Montgomery makes to this field—living collections-based conservation and research. Strategic planning for collections, capital improvements, development and collaboration is carefully aligned with the MBC mission, to grow outcomes in botany and horticulture.