Edith May Farr (1864-1956) was an American botanist noted for her study of Rocky Mountain and Canadian flora.[1][2] Originally from Philadelphia, she was active collecting plants in the Selkirk Range and in the southern Canadian Rockies.[3] In 1904, she collected specimens for the University of Pennsylvania in the Rocky Mountains with Mary Schäffer Warren and Olive S. Day.[4]
Mention should, however, be made of Edith May Farr (1864-1956) of Philadelphia, who published on the plants of southern British Columbia and Alberta from 1904 to 1906, including a list of the plants of the Selkirk Range and the southern Canadian Rockies based on her collections (Farr 1907). Arnica louiseana Farr, a distinctive species with nodding flower-heads, named for Lake Louise, Alberta, was described in one of these papers (Farr 1906) and remains generally accepted as a species.
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