> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 952](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190423) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8680-1) LSID 8680-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16749847) QID Q16749847 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rowntree, Lester (Gertrud Ellen Lester) (1879-1979), British-born (Cumberland) naturalist, horticulturist and writer; emigrated to America 1889; married to Bernard Rowntree 1908-1930; settled in California where she ran a wild flower firm. **Abbreviated name**: *Rowntree* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rowntree*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection CAS|CAS]]; other material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection COLO|COLO]], [[Collection LAM|LAM]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection SD|SD]], [[Collection TEX|TEX]]. – Main Mexican herbarium destroyed by fire (McVaugh 1972). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 186 (b. 16 Feb 1879); IH 2: (files); KR p. 4: 533; Langman p. 653. #### Biofile - Anon., California Native Plant Society Bull. Mai-Jun 1979, p. 7 (d.); Fremontia 7(1): 23. 1979 (d. 21 Feb 1978 (for 1979), obit.); Gard. Chron. Amer. 51: 243. 1947 (portr.). - Barker, P.A., Amer. hort. Mag. 44: 32-35. 1963 (a visit with Lester Rowntree). - Cantelow, E.D. & H.C., Leafl. W. Bot. 8: 98. 1957. - Hamann, S., Calif. Hort. Soc. J. 35: 73-76. 1974 ("Mountain mystic"), Fremontia Jan 1976: 3-8 ("The wildflower lover at ninety-seven"). - Howell, J.T., Leafl. W. Bot. 7(3): 94. 1953 (impt. set Calif. pl. at CAS). - Lenz, L.W., Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden 1927-1977, p. 41, 84. 1977. - McVaugh, R., Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 9: 299. 1972. - O'Connor, N.G., Baileya 11(2): 49-53. 1963 (biogr. sketch, portr.). - Pearce, F.O., Pacific horticulture 40(2): 52. 1979 (obit., portr.). - Rowntree, L., Fremontia Jan 1976: 9-16. Jan 1977: 15-19, Jul 1977: 13-18. ("Sierra wildflowers", has autobiographical elements, portr.). - Woolfenden, J., Calif. hort. J. 29(4): 98-102, 126. 1968 (portr., biogr. sketch). ### Publications ##### n.9713. Hardy Californians **Title** *Hardy Californians*... New York (The Macmillan Company) 1936. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Hardy Calif.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1936, p. \[i\]-xiv, \[xv\], 1-255, map Calif. on endpapers. *Copy*: E (inf. J. Edmondson). *Ref*.: Robinson, G.W., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1937: 279-280 (rev.). ##### n.9714. Flowering shrubs of California **Title** *Flowering shrubs of California* and their value to the gardener... Stanford (Stanford University Press...) \[1939\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. shrubs Calif*. **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: Oct 1939, p. \[i\]-xii, 1-317. *Copies*: HH, NY, USDA. *Second printing*: Feb 1948. *Copy*: *G*.