Roxana Stinchfield Ferris

Roxana ("Roxy") Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (April 13, 1895 – June 30, 1978)[1] was an American botanist.

Roxana Stinchfield Ferris
Born
Roxana Judkins Stinchfield

April 13, 1895
Sycamore, California
DiedJune 30, 1978
Palo Alto
NationalityAmerican
EducationStanford University
Occupationbotanist
Spouse(s)Gordon Floyd Ferris (1893-1958)

She was born in Sycamore, California, to Moses and Annie Stinchfield. She was named after her grandmother, Roxany Judkins.[2]

In 1916, Stinchfield Ferris earned a Master of Arts in Botany at Stanford University, and afterwards she joined the staff of the Dudley Herbarium at Stanford, collecting thousands of botanical specimens for the research collection there.[3] She specialized in collecting Phanerogams, and the botany of California and Mexico.[4] Stinchfield Ferris retired from the Dudley Herbarium in 1963,[5] and died in Palo Alto in 1978.

Works
  • The trees and shrubs of western Oregon
  • An Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States[6] (as co-editor)
  • Death Valley Wildflowers
  • Flowers of Point Reyes National Seashore
  • Native Shrubs of the San Francisco Bay Region
  • New Combinations in Aster[7]

Species named in honor

Several species have been named in honor of Ferris including

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References
  1. Tracy L. Morris. "Roxana Judkins STINCHFIELD". STINCHFIELD/STANCHFIELD Family Research. RootsWeb. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  2. Marsha Bryant. "Stinchfield, Daniel". First Families in Vanderburgh, IN. Vanderburgh INGenWeb. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  3. "Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978)". Smithsonian Institution Archives. 2011-09-14. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  4. "Ferris, Roxana Stinchfield". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries Index of Botanists. Harvard University. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  5. Timby, Sara. "The Dudley Herbarium, Including a Case Study of Terman's Restructuring of the Biology Department" (PDF). Stanford University. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  6. Abrams, Le Roy; Ferris, Roxana S. (1923). An illustrated flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California. v.1 (1923). Stanford University: Stanford University Press.
  7. California Botanical Society.; Society, California Botanical (1959–1960). Madroño; a West American journal of botany. v.15:no.1-8 (1959:Jan.-1960:Oct.). Berkeley: California Botanical Society.CS1 maint: date format (link)
  8. Liston, Aaron (April 1990). "Taxonomic Notes on Astragalus Section Leptocarpi Subsection Californici (Fabaceae)". Brittonia. 42 (2): 100–104. doi:10.2307/2807621. JSTOR 2807621.
  9. "Eremogone ferrisiae". ucjeps.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  10. IPNI.  Ferris.
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