Elizabeth May McClintock (7 July 1912 – 19 October 2004) was abotanist who was born inSan Jacinto, California, United States, and grew up near theSan Jacinto Mountains. She earned aBachelor's degree in 1937 and aMaster's degree in 1939 from theUniversity of California, Los Angeles and aPh.D. inbotany in 1956 from theUniversity of Michigan.^[1] She specialized intaxonomy and distribution offlowering plants, and focused onCalifornia natives. She documentedinvasive plants in California, and compiled information ontoxicity ofpoisonous plants cultivated in the state.

McClintock was aherbarium botanist atUCLA from 1941 through 1947. From 1949 until her retirement in 1977, she was acurator in the Department of Botany at theCalifornia Academy of Sciences. She added many tree specimens from Golden Gate Park to the herbaria after noticing they were not well documented.

She successfully battled the proposedPanhandle Freeway addition to theCentral Freeway inSan Francisco in 1960 and defended the raredune tansy.

In 1976 she launched Pacific Horticulture magazine, after editing the Journal of the California Horticultural Society (1945–1975) for several years. She was also an Associate at theJepson Herbarium at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, and acollaborator onThe Jepson Manual project.

In 2002 she was awarded with the Royal Horticultural Society's Gold Veitch Memorial Medal.^[2]

In 2004, Dr. Elizabeth McClintock died peacefully at a convalescent home inSanta Rosa, California at the age of 92.

• Trees of Golden Gate Park and San Francisco. By Elizabeth McClintock. Edited and arranged by Richard G. Turner Jr.Heyday Books, 2001 (ISBN 1-890771-28-7) This book is based on the writings of E. McClintock, whose column on the trees of Golden Gate Park was a feature of Pacific Horticulture magazine for twenty-five years.

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