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 Citharexylum roxanae
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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