with others. Swink, Robert Betz, and Ray Schulenberg—the "Prairie Triad"—were awarded the George B. Fell Award in 1996 for their work in the pioneering of prairie restoration in northern Illinois. Legacy Floyd Swink is known for his lasting contributions to botany through his several published works on the flora of the Chicago region. He was instrumental in securing the protection of numerous natural areas. He worked with Robert Betz to preserve Santa Fe Prairie in Hodgkins, Illinois, Sagawau Canyon, a unique natural feature near Lemont, IL, and also advocated for the restoration of the Indiana Dunes. Swink's legacy of botanical study in the Chicago Region continues in those that he mentored, including the publishing of Flora of the Chicago Region: A Floristic and Ecological Synthesis by Gerould Wilhelm and Laura Rericha in 2017. In 2016, Wilhelm and Rericha named the plant Hypericum swinkianum (Swink’s St. Johns wort) in his honor. Publications References 1921 births 2000 deaths Botanists active in North America 20th-century American botanists United States Navy personnel of World War II