Roxana Stinchfield Ferris Explained

Roxana Stinchfield Ferris
Birth Name:	Roxana Judkins Stinchfield
Birth Date:	April 13, 1895
Birth Place:	Sycamore, California
Death Date:	June 30, 1978
Death Place:	Palo Alto
Education:	Stanford University
Occupation:	botanist
Spouse:	Gordon Floyd Ferris (1893–1958)
Nationality:	American

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

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 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.^[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

• Astragalus tener var. ferrisiae - Ferris's milk-vetch^[8]
• Eremogone ferrisiae - Ferris's sandwort^[9]
• Lasthenia ferrisiae - Ferris's goldfields

External links

• Brief biography on JSTOR
• The trees and shrubs of western Oregon at WorldCat

Notes and References

1. Web site: Roxana Judkins STINCHFIELD . Tracy L. Morris . STINCHFIELD/STANCHFIELD Family Research . RootsWeb . 28 May 2014.
2. Web site: Marsha Bryant . Stinchfield, Daniel . First Families in Vanderburgh, IN . Vanderburgh INGenWeb . 28 May 2014.
3. Web site: Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978). Smithsonian Institution Archives. 27 March 2015. 2011-09-14.
4. Web site: Ferris, Roxana Stinchfield. Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries Index of Botanists. Harvard University. 27 March 2015.
5. Web site: Timby. Sara. The Dudley Herbarium, Including a Case Study of Terman's Restructuring of the Biology Department. Stanford University. 27 March 2015.
6. Book: An illustrated flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California.. Abrams. Le Roy. Ferris. Roxana S.. 1923. Stanford University Press. v.1 (1923). Stanford University.
7. Book: Madroño; a West American journal of botany.. California Botanical Society.. Society. California Botanical. 1959–1960. California Botanical Society.. v.15:no.1–8 (1959:Jan.-1960:Oct.). Berkeley.
8. Liston. Aaron. Taxonomic Notes on Astragalus Section Leptocarpi Subsection Californici (Fabaceae). Brittonia. April 1990. 42. 2. 100–104. 10.2307/2807621. 2807621. 38799224.
9. Web site: Eremogone ferrisiae. ucjeps.berkeley.edu. 2019-03-13.