A partial list of seed plants of the North Coast Ranges of California, ccompiled from the Herbarium of the Santa Rosa Junior College and the field notes of Milo S. Baker, 1929-1972.

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A partial list of seed plants of the North Coast Ranges of California, ccompiled from the Herbarium of the Santa Rosa Junior College and the field notes of Milo S. Baker, 1929-1972.

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The lists name some 2,717 species collected between Sonoma and the Oregon border. In his introduction to the 1951 list he writes, "This list has been undertaken in the sheer pleasure of finding out what seed plants grow in this vast and varied region... the list may contain some wrong determinations but for every name in it there is a voucher in the college herbarium and living plants growing at the indicated location. The names may change from time to time but the plants remain unchanged and unmindful of attempts to classify them."

1 manuscript box (15 lists)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Baker, Milo S. (Milo Samuel), 1868-

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A farmer, a teacher, and most of all, a searcher and saver of native plants, Milo Baker died in 1961 at the age of 92. From 1901 to 1922 he farmed the Kenwood ranch that he called Maplewood, at the mouth of Adobe Canyon in Sonoma County. Prior to that, he received his botany degree from the University of California and taught at Lowell High School in San Francisco. In 1922 Baker joined the Santa Rosa Junior College faculty. 13,000 plant specimens were collected by Baker and his students and asso...

Santa Rosa Junior College (Calif.). Herbarium

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