Mary Bowerman

Mary Leolin Bowerman (January 25, 1908 – August 21, 2005) was an American botanist, co-author of The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Mount Diablo, California; Their Distribution and Association into Plant Communities[1], and the co-founder of Save Mount Diablo. She helped to preserve tens of thousands of acres of Mount Diablo in the San Francisco East Bay before dying at age 97.[2] In 1936 she was the last person to record the Mount Diablo buckwheat Eriogonum truncatum, until it was rediscovered nearly seventy years later on May 10, 2005.[3] In 1978 the manzanita Arctostaphylos bowermaniae was named in her honor.[3]

  1. ^ Ertter, Barbara; Bowerman, Mary L. (2002). The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Mount Diablo, California; Their Distribution and Association. California: California Native Plant Society. ISBN 978-0943460420 – via LuEsther T Mertz Library.
  2. ^ Adams, Seth (2000) “History of Mount Diablo” Mount Diablo Interpretive Association, Mount Diablo Review, fall 2000. Retrieved 2018-12-03
  3. ^ a b Ertter, Barbara (April 2006). "Savior of the Mountain: Mary Leolin Bowerman (1908-2005)" (PDF). Fremontia. 34: 3–10.