Education
She earned a Bachelor"s degree in 1937 and a Master"s degree in 1939 from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Doctor of Philosophy in botany in 1956 from the University of Michigan.
She earned a Bachelor"s degree in 1937 and a Master"s degree in 1939 from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Doctor of Philosophy in botany in 1956 from the University of Michigan.
She specialized in taxonomy and distribution of flowering plants, and focused on California natives. She documented invasive plants in California, and compiled information on toxicity of poisonous plants cultivated in the state. She was a herbarium botanist at University of California, Los Angeles from 1941 through 1947.
From 1949 until her retirement in 1977, she was a curator in the Department of Botany at the California Academy of Sciences.
She was also an Associate at the Herbarium at the University of California, Berkeley and a collaborator on The Jepson Manual project In 2004, Doctor Elizabeth McClintock died peacefully at the Hanna House in Santa Rosa, California at the age of 92.
She successfully battled the proposed Panhandle Freeway addition to the Central Freeway in San Francisco in 1960 and defended the rare dune tansy.