Charles Piper Smith

Charles Piper Smith (1877 – 1955) was an American botanist. Smith's work primarily involved the genus Lupinus, specifically the subgenus Platycarpos. His extensive field research was centralized to the western coast of the United States, with a large majority of his observations taking place in California and Oregon. Throughout his career, he published at least 150 botanical classifications consisting of both new species and new variants of already established species. File:LUPINUS_PUSILLUS_INTERMONTANUS.jpg Lupinus pusillus intermontanus as illustrated by Amos Arthur Heller and classified/republished by Charles Piper Smith in his journals. Though his work specialized primarily on Lupinus, he also published observations on the Quercus (oak) genus, highlighting seed number in acorns from various species present in Stoughton, Massachusetts in his journal Plurality of Seeds in Acorns of Quercus Prinus.