| Comparative development of fiber in wild and cultivated cotton WL Applequist, R Cronn, JF Wendel Evolution & development 3 (1), 3-17, 2001 | 200 | 2001 |
| Yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.): A Neglected Panacea? A Review of Ethnobotany, Bioactivity, and Biomedical Research1 WL Applequist, DE Moerman Economic Botany 65, 209-225, 2011 | 179 | 2011 |
| Best practice in research: consensus statement on ethnopharmacological field studies–ConSEFS M Heinrich, A Lardos, M Leonti, C Weckerle, M Willcox, W Applequist, ... Journal of ethnopharmacology 211, 329-339, 2018 | 151 | 2018 |
| Comparative fatty acid content of seeds of four Cucurbita species grown in a common (shared) garden WL Applequist, B Avula, BT Schaneberg, YH Wang, IA Khan Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 19 (6-7), 606-611, 2006 | 144 | 2006 |
| Scientistsʼ warning on climate change and medicinal plants WL Applequist, JA Brinckmann, AB Cunningham, RE Hart, M Heinrich, ... Planta medica 86 (01), 10-18, 2020 | 140 | 2020 |
| Phylogeny of the portulacaceous cohort based on ndhF sequence data WL Applequist, RS Wallace Systematic Botany 26 (2), 406-419, 2001 | 136 | 2001 |
| The identification of medicinal plants: a handbook of the morphology of botanicals in commerce. W Applequist | 64 | 2006 |
| Report of the nomenclature committee for vascular plants: 66 WL Applequist Taxon 63 (6), 1358-1371, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| Adulteration of selected unprocessed botanicals in the US retail herbal trade KM Walker, WL Applequist Economic botany 66, 321-327, 2012 | 49 | 2012 |
| A reassessment of the nomenclature of Matricaria L. and Tripleurospermum Sch. Bip. (Asteraceae) WL Applequist Taxon 51 (4), 757-761, 2002 | 48 | 2002 |
| Standard operating procedure for the collection and preparation of voucher plant specimens for use in the nutraceutical industry J Hildreth, E Hrabeta-Robinson, W Applequist, J Betz, J Miller Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry 389, 13-17, 2007 | 47 | 2007 |
| Variation of select flavonols and chlorogenic acid content of elderberry collected throughout the Eastern United States E Mudge, WL Applequist, J Finley, P Lister, AK Townesmith, KM Walker, ... Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 47, 52-59, 2016 | 45 | 2016 |
| A brief review of recent controversies in the taxonomy and nomenclature of Sambucus nigra sensu lato WL Applequist I International Symposium on Elderberry 1061, 25-33, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| Phylogeny of the Madagascan endemic family Didiereaceae WL Applequist, RS Wallace Plant Systematics and Evolution 221, 157-166, 2000 | 45 | 2000 |
| Deletions in the plastid trnT–trnL intergenic spacer define clades within Cactaceae subfamily Cactoideae WL Applequist, RS Wallace Plant Systematics and Evolution 231, 153-162, 2002 | 40 | 2002 |
| Molecular evidence resolving the systematic position of Hectorella (Portulacaceae) WL Applequist, WL Wagner, EA Zimmer, M Nepokroeff Systematic Botany 31 (2), 310-319, 2006 | 38 | 2006 |
| Expanded circumscription of Didiereaceae and its division into three subfamilies WL Applequist, RS Wallace Adansonia 25 (1), 13-16, 2003 | 37 | 2003 |
| Dietary Sutherlandia and elderberry mitigate cerebral ischemia-induced neuronal damage and attenuate p47phox and phospho-ERK1/2 expression in microglial cells DY Chuang, J Cui, A Simonyi, VA Engel, S Chen, KL Fritsche, AL Thomas, ... ASN neuro 6 (6), 1759091414554946, 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
| Report of the nomenclature committee for vascular plants: 65 WL Applequist Taxon 62 (6), 1315-1326, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| Selection and authentication of botanical materials for the development of analytical methods WL Applequist, JS Miller Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry 405, 4419-4428, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
