WHO'S IN A NAME?
People Behind the Names of Eastern Sierra Native Plants
Also see Celebrating 150 Years of Inyo County Botany (poster) from the CNPS talk in December 2016 by Bruce Baldwin.
Short Historical Essays by Larry Blakely
Note: all of these appeared in the Bristlecone Chapter newsletter previously, and are also available on Larry Blakely's Cal Poly Pomona page, here: http://www.cpp.edu/~larryblakely/whoname/
- Constantine Rafinesque (and a little bit on Thomas Nuttall and Asa Gray)
California Chicory, Rafinesquia californica Nutt.; Desert Chicory, Rafinesquia neomexicana A. Gray
- Washington Matthews
Desert Calico, Loeseliastrum matthewsii (A. Gray) S. Timbrook; Bushy Bedstraw, Galium matthewsii A. Gray
- Stafford Wallace Austin
Austin's Beardtongue, Penstemon floridus var. austinii (Eastw.) N. Holmgren
- Thomas Nuttall
Large white desert primrose, Oenothera caespitosa Nutt.; Desert olive, Forestiera pubescens Nutt.; Nuttall's linanthus, Linanthus nuttallii (A. Gray) Milliken
- Edwin James
Cliffbush, Jamesia americana Torr. & A. Gray
- Charles Christopher Parry
Yellow tackstem, Calycoseris parryi A. Gray; Sand blossoms, Linanthus parryae (A. Gray) E. Greene
- George Tradescant Lay
White tidy-tips (white layia), Layia glandulosa (Hook.) Hook. & Arn.
- Charles Lewis Anderson
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Anderson's Buttercup, Ranunculus andersonii Gray; Desert Peach, Prunus andersonii Gray
- Alice Eastwood
Eastwood's willow, Salix eastwoodiae Cockerell ex A.A. Heller; Toothed gilia, Aliciella triodon (Eastw.) Brand; Broad-leafed gilia, Aliciella latifolia (S. Watson) J. M. Porter
- Josiah Gregg
Desert Ceanothus, Ceanothus greggii A. Gray var. vestitus (E. Greene) McMinn
- Father John J. Crowley, Mary DeDecker, C. P. Smith
DeDecker's Lupine, Lupinus padre-crowleyi C. P. Smith
- Joseph Banks, John Richardson
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Twinberry Honeysuckle, Lonicera involucrata (Richardson) Banks
- John Milton Bigelow, MD
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Bigelow's Monkeyflower, Mimulus bigelovii (A. Gray) A. Gray var. cuspidatus A.L. Grant
