Richard Folkard

Richard Folkard is known for Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics, a wide-ranging 19th-century work that brings together folklore, myth, tradition, and literary references about plants. The book was published in 1892 and has remained of interest to readers drawn to folklore, herbal tradition, and the cultural history of nature.

His writing reflects the Victorian love of collecting and organizing knowledge, especially material that sat between scholarship and storytelling. Rather than treating plants only as botanical subjects, he explored the beliefs, symbols, and old customs that surrounded them.

Little biographical information was clearly available in the sources I could confirm here, so the surviving reputation of Richard Folkard rests mainly on his work itself. For many readers, that book remains a rich and curious guide to the imaginative world people built around flowers, trees, and herbs.