Sarah Frances Price

Sarah Frances Price (1849-July 3, 1903) was an American botanist. Price discovered many rare plants and is credited with classifying a large portion of Kentucky's flora.[1] Also an artist, she drew about fifteen hundred southern plants in pencil and watercolor. The standard author abbreviation S.F.Price is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Biography

Price was born in 1849 in Evansville, Indiana, the third child of Alexander Price and Maria Price; and shortly moved to Kentucky. With the onset of the American Civil War, the family moved to Indiana and educated at church-run schools including the Episcopal Church school St. Agnes Hall. At the close of the Civil War, they returned to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Price published over forty scientific papers in the time leading up to 1907. A lifelong botanist, she had a private herbarium with about 2000 plants in it. Several of her drawings were showcased at the World's Columbian Exposition, for which she won several awards. Price drew over one-hundred fifty birds, and over one thousand plants. She discovered several new species, including plants in the genera Aster, Apios, Cornus, Clematis and Oxalis. In 1897, she published her best known work, Fern Collectors Handbook and Herbarium. Four species are named after her, Apios priceana, Cornus priceae, Viola priceana and Oxalis priceana.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ The American Naturalist. Essex Institute. 1904.
  2. ↑ IPNI.  S.F.Price.
  3. ↑ "Sarah Price". Women's Work. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  4. ↑ "Sarah Frances Price" (PDF). University of North Carolina Chapel Press.

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