LeRoy Abrams

{{Short description|American botanist (1874–1956)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1874|10|01}}

| birth_place = Sheffield, Iowa

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| occupation = Professor, Herbarium Curator

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LeRoy Abrams (1874–1956) was an American botanist and writer.{{cite web|url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=875|title=LeRoy Abrams|work=Harvard University Herbaria - Index of Botanists|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=22 October 2015}}{{cite journal|last=Wilson|first=Albert|date=October 1956|title=Wilson, Albert, 1903– Papers, ca. 1910–1995, Special Collections & University Archives M1397|journal=Journal of the California Horticultural Society|volume=XVII|url=http://trees.stanford.edu/AW-abrams.htm}} He was a Professor of Botany at Stanford University. He wrote and illustrated a four-volume Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States, with the final volume published posthumously, after compilation and editing by Roxanna Ferris.

He and his wife had a home overlooking the Santa Clara Valley. Their only child, a daughter, predeceased him.

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Bibliography

  • {{Cite book |first=LeRoy |last=Abrams |author-mask=0 |title=Additions to the Flora of Los Angeles County I |year=1902}}
  • {{Cite book |first=LeRoy |last=Abrams |author-mask=0 |title=Additions to the Flora of Los Angeles County II |year=1903}}
  • {{Cite book |first=LeRoy |last=Abrams |author-mask=0 |title=Flora of Los Angeles and Vicinity |year=1904 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001494086}}
  • {{Cite book |first=LeRoy |last=Abrams |author-mask=0 |title=Phytogeography of Trees and Shrubs of Southern California |year=1908}}
  • {{Cite book |first=LeRoy |last=Abrams |author-mask=0 |title=The Gymnosperms Growing On the Grounds of Leland Stanford Jr. University |url=http://trees.stanford.edu/PDF/Abrams.pdf |year=1913}}
  • {{Cite book |first=LeRoy |last=Abrams |author-mask=0 |title=Cypress Trees in Southern California |year=1914}}
  • {{Cite book |first=LeRoy |last=Abrams |author-mask=0 |title=The Floral Features of California |year=1915}}
  • {{Cite book |first=LeRoy |last=Abrams |author-mask=0 |title=Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States |volume=1 |url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedflora01abra |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=1923 }}
  • {{Cite book |first=LeRoy |last=Abrams |author-mask=0 |title=Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States |volume=2 |year=1944 }}
  • {{Cite book |first=LeRoy |last=Abrams |author-mask=0 |title=Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States |volume=3 |year=1951 }}
  • {{Cite book |first=LeRoy |last=Abrams |author-mask=0 |title=Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States |volume=4 |year=1960 }}

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