Edith May Farr (1864-1956) was an American botanist noted for her study of Rocky Mountain and Canadian flora. Originally from Philadelphia, she was active collecting plants in the Selkirk Range and in the southern Canadian Rockies. In 1904, she collected specimens for the University of Pennsylvania in the Rocky Mountains with Mary Schäffer Warren and Olive S. Day.
Publications
- Farr, Edith May (1907). Contributions to a catalogue of the flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Range. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. hdl:2027/hvd.32044106346042.
References
- "Farr, Edith May (1864-1956)". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- Creese, Mary R. S. (2010). Ladies in the laboratory III : South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science : nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : a survey of their contributions. Creese, Thomas M. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 160–161. ISBN 978-0-8108-7289-9. OCLC 659564120.
- Pringle, James S. (July–September 1995). "The History of the Exploration of the Vascular Flora of Canada". The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 109 (3): 291–356. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
Mention should, however, be made of Edith May Farr (1864-1956) of Philadelphia, who published on the plants of southern British Columbia and Alberta from 1904 to 1906, including a list of the plants of the Selkirk Range and the southern Canadian Rockies based on her collections (Farr 1907). Arnica louiseana Farr, a distinctive species with nodding flower-heads, named for Lake Louise, Alberta, was described in one of these papers (Farr 1906) and remains generally accepted as a species.
- Skidmore, Colleen (2017). Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography. University of Alberta. ISBN 978-1-77212-298-5. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- International Plant Names Index. Farr.
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