Elizabeth McClintock

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Elizabeth McClintock, 1912 to 2004

Born in Los Angeles and grew up in near the San Jacinto Mountain. BA and MA from UCLA, PhD in botany from University of Michigan. Specialized in taxonomy and distribution of flowering plants, and focused on California natives. She documented invasive plants in California, and compiled information on toxicity of poisonous plants cultivated in the state.

Herbarium Botanist at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1941-1947. Curator, Department of Botany at the California Academy of Sciences, 1949- 1977. Associate, Herbarium of University of California, Berkeley, and collaborator on Jepson Manual Project.

Curator in the Botany Department of the California Academy of Sciences from 1949 until retirement in 1977. Successfully battled the proposed Panhandle Freeway in San Francisco(1960) and defended the rare dune tansy. Dr. Elizabeth McClintock died peacefully at Hanna House in Santa Rosa at the age of 92.