Sara Plummer Lemmon

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Sara Plummer Lemmon was a 19th-century American botanist and illustrator known for her extensive plant-collecting work in the American West and for helping to popularize and document the flora of Arizona and California.

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instanceOf American botanist
botanist
human
illustrator
scientific illustrator
activeIn 19th century
American West NERFINISHED
Arizona NERFINISHED
California NERFINISHED
birthName Sara Allen Plummer NERFINISHED
collectedSpecimensFor Smithsonian Institution NERFINISHED
United States Department of Agriculture NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1836-09-03
dateOfDeath 1923-01-15
educatedAt Cooper Union NERFINISHED
era Victorian era
ethnicGroup European American
familyName Lemmon NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork botanical illustration
botany
givenName Sara NERFINISHED
hasNamesake Baccharis plummerae NERFINISHED
Calochortus plummerae NERFINISHED
Lemmon’s paintbrush NERFINISHED
Mount Lemmon NERFINISHED
knownFor botanical exploration of Arizona
botanical exploration of California
botanical illustrations of Western plants
languageSpoken English
memberOf California Academy of Sciences NERFINISHED
movement American women in science
name Sara Plummer Lemmon NERFINISHED
notableAchievement co-led botanical expeditions in Arizona with John Gill Lemmon
helped secure the naming of Mount Lemmon in Arizona
notableFor extensive plant-collecting in the American West
popularizing Western North American flora
notableWork documentation of the flora of Arizona
documentation of the flora of California
occupation botanist
illustrator
partnerInScience John Gill Lemmon NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Maine, United States of America NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Oakland, California, United States of America NERFINISHED
residence Oakland, California, United States of America NERFINISHED
Santa Barbara, California, United States of America NERFINISHED
sexOrGender female
spouse John Gill Lemmon NERFINISHED

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Mount Lemmon namedAfter Sara Plummer Lemmon