About Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Lived 1859 – 1947 (aged 87–88). Mary Elizabeth Parsons was an American botanist and botanical collector.
Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1859 – December 22, 1947) was the writer of an early comprehensive guide to California wildflowers.
Biography The Wild Flowers of California (1902), p. 65; Matilija poppy, Romncya coulteri Mary Elizabeth Parsons was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1859. She studied art in San Francisco in the 1890s, where Alice Brown Chittenden was her sketching partner.
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American botanist and author (1859-1947)
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Mary Elizabeth Parsons was born in 1859 in Chicago.
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Mary Elizabeth Parsons was a botanist and botanical collector.
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