Kelly Kindscher
Senior Scientist, Kansas Biological Survey
Professor, Environmental Studies Program
Courtesy Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
kindscher@ku.edu
Primary office:
785-864-1529
135A Higuchi Hall
Academic degrees
Ph.D., Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas, 1991 (Dissertation: "Prairie Plant Guilds: An Ordination of Prairie Plant Species Based on Ecological and Morphological Traits")
M.S., Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas, 1988 (Thesis: "Medicinal Prairie Plants")
B.A., Environmental Studies, University of Kansas, 1979 (with honors and distinction)
Awards
Steeples Service to Kansans Award, 2013 (KU)
Program affiliations
Kansas Natural Heritage Inventory
Native Medicinal Plant Research Program
Areas of specialization
Plant community ecology and botany
Research interests
- Prairie and montane meadow plant communities
- Wetland and prairie restoration
- Conservation of Midwest/Great Plains ecosystems
- Ethnobotany
Recent publications
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Kindscher, K., L.M. Martin, E M. Staab, and J.M. Delisle. 2016. A Natural Areas Inventory of Douglas County in Northeast Kansas. Open-File Report No. 184. Kansas Biological Survey. Lawrence, KS. 53 pp.
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Kindscher, K., Ed. 2016. Echinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild History. Switzerland: Springer. 238 pages.
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Shipley, G., and K. Kindscher. 2016. Evidence for the paleoethnobotany of the Neanderthal: A review of the literature. Scientifica, vol. 2016, 12 pages. doi:10.1155/2016/8927654
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Gori, D., M.S. Cooper, E.S. Soles, M. Stone, R. Morrison, T.W. Turner, D.L. Propst, G. Garfin, M. Switanek, H.I. Chang, S. Bassett, J. Haney, D. Lyons, M. Horner, C.N. Dahm, J.K. Frey, K. Kindscher, H.A. Walker, and M.T. Bogan. 2016. Gila River flow needs assessment. The New Mexico Botanist, (5), 24-32.
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Kindscher, K., and N. Myhal. 2016. Review of the book Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings, Mary Siisip Geniusz. The Prairie Naturalist, 48(2).
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Araya, J.J., K. Kindscher, and B. Timmermann. 2016. Sullivantosides A-F: Pregnane glycosides from Asclepias sullivantii L. Phytochemistry Letters, 16, 185–191.
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Cao, C.M., K. Kindscher, R.J. Gallagher, H. Zhang, and B.N. Timmermann. 2015. Analysis of major with anolides in Physalis longifolia Nutt. by HPLC-PDA. Journal of Chromatographic Science 53(7):1044-7.
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Gallagher, R.J., C. Subramanian, P.T. Grogan, K. Kindscher, C.-M. Cao, C.-M., H. Zhang, M.S. Cohen, and B.N. Timmermann. 2015. The therapeutic potential of Physalis longifolia against various carcinomas. PharmaNutrition, 3(4):146-152. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213434415000225 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phanu.2015.05.002 ISSN:2213-4344
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Cao, C. M., X. Wu, K. Kindscher, L. Xu, L., and B.N. Timmermann. 2015. Withanolides and sucrose esters from Physalis neomexicana. Journal of Natural Products 78(10):2488-93.
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Kindscher, K., C. Cong-Mei, R.J. Gallagher, H. Zhang, Q. Long, L. Service, L.M. Martin, and B.N. Timmerman. 2014. Comparison of bioactive secondary metabolites in experimental and natural populations of wild tomatillos, Physalis longifolia Nutt. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 12:175-182.