Pierre Joseph Garidel

Pierre Joseph Garidel (1658–1737) was a French botanist.

Pierre-Joseph Garidel was born on August 1, 1658 in Manosque. His father was Pierre Garidel, a lawyer, and his mother, Louise de Barthelemy. He studied Medicine at the University of Aix-en-Provence and the University of Montpellier.

Ranunculus arvensis, taken from Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix (1715).

He became a Professor of Botany at the Aix-en-Provence. Together with Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, he studied plants from Provence. Meanwhile, he called on the French nobility to take up botany as a hobby alongside hunting.

In 1735, he published, Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence, which describes 1,400 plants. In the preface, he writes about the history of botany in Provence and the medicinal uses of plants.

He died on June 06, 1737 in Aix-en-Provence.

The garidella, a subclass of the thalamiflorae, was named in his honour.