The Jepson Manual is a flora of the vascular plants that are either native to or naturalized in California . Botanists often refer to the book simply as Jepson . It is produced by the University and Jepson Herbaria , of the University of California, Berkeley . Its second edition is the basis of the online Jepson eFlora.
5-455: The Jepson Manual also follows Philip A. Munz and David D. Keck in their A California Flora and Supplement of 1958 and 1968. 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. The first edition of The Jepson Manual was published in 1993 as The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California (TJM93), and
10-453: A book on botany or plants is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . David D. Keck David Daniels Keck (October 24, 1903 – March 10, 1995) was an American botanist who was notable for his work on angiosperm taxonomy and genetics. Keck was born in Omaha, Nebraska . He completed undergraduate studies at Pomona College in 1925 and was awarded a Ph.D. in botany from
15-437: Is named in honor of Jepson, The Jepson Manual is not simply a new edition of Jepson's 1923 book, but a new work which Baldwin calls "the most time-consuming undertaking of my career." The Jepson eFlora is 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". This article about
20-755: The University of California in 1930. From 1925 to 1950 he was based at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, at Stanford University , where he worked on plant species concepts with Jens Clausen and William Hiesey . In 1949, the three of them were co-recipients of the Mary Soper Pope Memorial Award in botany. In 1950 he was appointed head curator of the New York Botanical Garden and remained there until 1958. In 1959, he co-published A California Flora with Philip A. Munz . He
25-399: Was edited by James C. Hickman. The second edition was published in 2012, as The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, Thoroughly Revised and Expanded (TJM2), and was edited by Bruce Gregg Baldwin, Douglas H. Goldman , David John Keil , Robert Patterson, and Thomas James Rosatti . The second edition features 7,601 California plant species, subspecies and varieties. While the book
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