Helen Sharsmith

Helen Sharsmith

Helen Katherine Myers Sharsmith (August 26, 1905 – November 10, 1982) was an American biologist.

Biography

Helen Sharsmith was born 1905 in Oakland, California. She received an AB and MA from University of California, Berkeley in 1927 and 1928, then worked as a high school and junior college teacher. She met her future husband, Carl Sharsmith, while taking a class in the Yosemite Outdoor Field School in Yosemite National Park. She and her husband married and both earned doctorates from University of California, Berkeley, hers in 1940.

Sharsmith was a research assistance at University of California and a biology teacher while working on her degree. Later, she worked as a biology assistant at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and a senior botanist at Berkeley, where she retired in 1969.

Sharsmith's dissertation was later published as a book, "Flora of the Mount Hamilton Range of California" (1945). This was the result of extensive field research in the area. She also wrote "Spring Wildflowers of the San Francisco Bay Region" (1965).

The Sharsmiths had two children, John, named after John Muir, and a daughter Linnea, named after Carolus Linnaeus. They were later divorced.

Sharsmith died 1982 in Alameda County, California.

Legacy

* Sharsmith's stickseed ("Hackelia sharsmithii" I.M. Johnston), named for her husband, but discovered by Sharsmith and her husband at Mirror Lake after climbing Mount Whitney
* Sharsmith's Onion ("Allium sharsmithiae" (Ownbey & Aase ex Traub) McNeal, Aliso or "Allium fimbriatum" S. Watson var. "sharsmithiae" Ownbey & Aase ex Traub.). Found in San Francisco Bay Area (Mt. Hamilton Range)
* Sharsmith's harebell or Mt. Hamilton Bellflower ("Campanula sharsmithiae" N. Morin). Found in San Francisco Bay Area (Mt. Hamilton Range)

ee also

* O'Neill, Elizabeth Stone, "Mountain Sage: The Life of Carl Sharsmith Yosemite Ranger/Naturalist" 2d ed. (1996) ISBN 0-939666-47-2.


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