• Source: Roxana Stinchfield Ferris
    • Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (April 13, 1895 – June 30, 1978) was an American botanist.
      She was born in Sycamore, California, to Moses and Annie Stinchfield. She was named after her grandmother, Roxany Judkins.
      In 1916, Stinchfield Ferris earned a Master of Arts in Botany at Stanford University with advisor and mentor, LeRoy Abrams and afterwards she joined the staff of the Dudley Herbarium at Stanford, collecting thousands of botanical specimens for the research collection there. She specialized in collecting Phanerogams, and the botany of California and Mexico.
      Stinchfield Ferris retired from the Dudley Herbarium in 1963, and died in Palo Alto in 1978.


      Works


      The trees and shrubs of western Oregon
      An Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States (as co-editor)
      Death Valley Wildflowers
      Flowers of Point Reyes National Seashore
      Native Shrubs of the San Francisco Bay Region
      New Combinations in Aster


      Species named in honor


      Several species have been named in honor of Ferris including

      Astragalus tener var. ferrisiae - Ferris's milk-vetch
      Eremogone ferrisiae - Ferris's sandwort
      Lasthenia ferrisiae - Ferris's goldfields


      References




      External links



      Brief biography on JSTOR
      The trees and shrubs of western Oregon at WorldCat
      Works by or about Roxana Stinchfield Ferris at the Internet Archive

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