Roxana Stinchfield Ferris

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Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (April 13, 1895 – June 30, 1978) was an American botanist. She was born in Sycamore, California, to Moses and Annie Stinchfield and was named after her grandmother. In 1916 she earned a Master of Arts in Botany at Stanford University, studying with LeRoy Abrams. She then joined the Dudley Herbarium at Stanford, where she collected thousands of plant specimens for the research collection. She specialized in seed plants and in the botany of California and Mexico. Ferris retired from the Dudley Herbarium in 1963 and died in Palo Alto in 1978. She was married to Gordon Floyd Ferris (1893–1958).