Damon Waitt, Ph.D.
Senior Director
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-0110
E-mail: dwaitt@wildflower.org

BIOGRAPHY
Waitt holds a doctorate in botany from The University of Texas in Austin where he studied the evolution and ecology of Drummond?s Phlox. He serves as the Wildflower Center's botanical authority. He uses his extensive experience developing web-based resources as director of the Center?s Native Plant Information Network, the largest online database about native plants in North America. He also tracks how harmful plants and animals threaten those that are native to Texas and other states while serving on the Invasive Species Advisory Committee for the National Invasive Species Council. Actively involved in establishing tools for tracking non-native plants in Texas, he is past president of the Texas Invasive Plant and Pest Council and is the chair of the National Association of Exotic Pest Plant Councils.