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The Jepson Manual also follows Philip A. Munz and David D. Keck in their A California Flora and Supplement of 1958 and 1968. [2] Like other florae, The Jepson Manual builds upon these prior publications. Except for the number of line drawings, it has more in common with Munz's 1968 book than with Jepson's 1923 book.
It was founded by Willis Linn Jepson in 1950, and named after him. [7] The Jepson Herbarium supports the Jepson eFlora, a taxonomic database that builds on and expands the second edition of The Jepson Manual. It describes itself as "the foremost authority on the native and naturalized vascular plants of California". [8]
Jepson wrote at least 11 books during his lifetime, with two focused on California's trees. His works include A Flora of California (1909), The Trees of California (1909); and the major A Manual of the Flowering Plants of California (1925), predecessor of The Jepson Manual (1993). A Flora of California – Volume I. San Francisco: Cunningham ...
The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University and Jepson Herbaria. University and Jepson Herbaria. Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ]
University of California Press, 1940. Hickman, James C., editor. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press, 1993. Hultén, Eric. Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants. Stanford University Press, 1968. Radford, Albert E. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
It is more likely that the term was first applied to the people; "Digger Indians" was in common use in California literature from the 1800s. The historically more common name digger pine is still in widespread use. The Jepson Manual advises avoiding this name as the authors believe "digger" is pejorative in origin. [11] [12] [13]
Randall James Bayer (born 13 July 1955) is an American systematic botanist born in Buffalo, New York, who spent his childhood in East Aurora.He earned a B.Sc. with major in plant breeding and minor in horticulture in 1978 from Cornell University; an M.Sc. in systematic botany in 1980 from the Ohio State University; and a Ph.D. in 1984 from the Ohio State University with the dissertation ...
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