Frances (Fran) Bodkin (born 1937) is an Australian botanist and Dharawal elder. [1] [2] She is the author of Encyclopaedia Botanica: The Essential Reference Guide to Native and Exotic Plants in Australia (1986). [3] In the 1970s she helped establish the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan near Sydney at a former meeting site of Indigenous people. [4]
In 2017 Bodkin received a UWS Community Award [5] and in 2019 she was nominated for a Landcare Australia land management award. [6]