Elizabeth McClintock

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Elizabeth McClintock (born 1912, died 2004 was a botanist who was born in Los Angeles, United States and grew up near the San Jacinto Mountains. 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, United States 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.