Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Awards
United States Assay Commission Medal of 1874
Scientific career
Fields
Botany Medicine Chemistry
Author abbrev. (botany)
Torr.
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John Torrey (August 15, 1796 – March 10, 1873) was an American botanist, chemist, and physician. Throughout much of his career, he was a teacher of chemistry, often at multiple universities, while he also pursued botanical work,[1] focusing on the flora of North America. His most renowned works include studies of the New York flora, the Mexican Boundary, the Pacific railroad surveys, and the uncompleted Flora of North America.
^Rodgers, Andrew Denny. "John Torrey: A Story of North American Botany." Princeton, 1942.
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Yucca baccata (datil yucca or banana yucca, also known as Spanish bayonet and broadleaf yucca) is a common species of yucca native to the deserts of the...
botanist Charles C. Parry, named the peak for his botanist colleague JohnTorrey. Torrey actually did not see the peak until 1872, 11 years later (the year...
are fertilized, they develop into greenish-white or tan drupes. Botanist John Howell observed that the plant's toxicity obscures its aesthetic values:...
Carpenteria /ˌkɑːrpənˈtɪəriə ˌkælɪˈfɔːrnɪkə/, the tree anemone or bush anemone, is a genus of flowering plants in the hydrangea family Hydrangeaceae. It...
distribution map Flora of North America, Vol. 26 Page 85, Zigadenus fremontii (Torrey) Torrey ex S. Watson, Botany (Fortieth Parallel). 343. 1871 (as Zygadenus)....
Physocarpus monogynus, the mountain ninebark or low ninebark, is a flowering shrub of western North America. Physocarpus monogynus occurs from northern...
Encelia farinosa (commonly known as brittlebush, brittlebrush, or incienso), is a common desert shrub of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico...
lacking in T. albidum. In 1856, JohnTorrey described Trillium sessile var. chloropetalum based on a specimen collected by John Milton Bigelow two years earlier...
Iris macrosiphon, the bowltube iris, is a flowering plant in the iris family, endemic to California in the Cascade Range Foothills, north and central Sierra...
Charles Wright first collected the plant in 1849 and it was described by JohnTorrey in 1859. It is an indicator species in the Chihuahuan Desert, the only...
Thomas Nuttall, was ascribed to the species by the American botanists JohnTorrey and Asa Gray when it was officially described in 1857. A number of former...
Celtis reticulata, with common names including netleaf hackberry, western hackberry, Douglas hackberry, netleaf sugar hackberry, palo blanco, and acibuche...
Pine. Its description is attributed to American politician and explorer John C. Frémont. During the mid-nineteenth century, many pinyon groves were cut...
Brackenridge at Mount Shasta, Northern California. In 1853, it was described by JohnTorrey, naming the genus Darlingtonia after Philadelphian botanist William Darlington...
Torrey Botanical Society (formerly Torrey Botanical Club) was started in the 1860s by colleagues of JohnTorrey. It is the oldest botanical society in...
ISBN 978-0-55-339396-5. Morse, JohnTorrey (1893). Abraham Lincoln. Vol. I. Cambridge, Mass., Riverside Press. Morse, JohnTorrey (1893). Abraham Lincoln. Vol...
fasciculata in an 1853 paper by JohnTorrey based on a collection of the plants of California acquired during the third expedition of John C. Fremont in 1845; whence...
Theatre West: Image and Impact. Rodopi. p. 36. ISBN 90-5183-125-0. Morse, JohnTorrey (1899). Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Vol. 1. Houghton,...
placed in Encyclia sect. Hymenochila. This species was first described by JohnTorrey in 1847. Native to Florida and the Bahamas, and another variety in Cuba...
Mirabilis multiflora is a species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family known by the common name Colorado four o'clock that is native to the southwestern...
Quercus emoryi, the Emory oak, is a species of oak common in Arizona (including inside Saguaro National Park), New Mexico and western Texas (including...
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