Ynes Mexía, Botanist Extraordinaire

The Google doodle today celebrates the famous Berkeley botanist Ynes Mexía, who collected ~150,000 specimens and did much of her fieldwork alone, which is all the more impressive given that she didn’t start her botanical careers until she was in her 50s!

See more about her here, and here, and if that piques your interest, we are lucky enough to have her archives here at UC/JEPS.