Vicki Funk (born 1947) is a Senior Research Botanist and Curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She is known for her work on thistles and sunflowers, and for her work collecting Compositae, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes and Spermatophytes.Funk's research includes detailing evolutionary relationships and history using plant DNA. Funk co-discovered the critically endangered Bidens Meyeri in Rapa Iti, Tahiti.