Roxana S. Ferris (1895–1978)

Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris was born in Sycamore, California to Moses and Annie Stinchfield. She earned a master's degree in Botany from Stanford University in 1916, and married Gordon Floyd Ferris, a Stanford entomologist. She worked as a curator and researcher at the Dudley Herbarium at Stanford for 47 years, eventually becoming its director, and collected more than 14,000 botanical specimens, specializing in California and Arizona species. She served as co-editor of the classic reference work Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States, and wrote such books as Death Valley Wildflowers and Flowers of Point Reyes National Seashore.