Background
Helen Sharsmith was born 1905 in Oakland, California.
Helen Sharsmith was born 1905 in Oakland, California.
She received an Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from University of California, Berkeley in 1927 and 1928, then worked as a high school and junior college teacher. 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).
They were later divorced. Sharsmith died 1982 in Alameda County, California.
Sharsmith"s Onion (Allium sharsmithiae (Ownbey & Aase ex Traub) McNeal, Aliso or Allium fimbriatum South. Watson various sharsmithiae Ownbey & Aase ex Traub.).
Foundation in San Francisco Bay Area (Mountain Hamilton Range)
Sharsmith"s harebell or Mountain. Hamilton Bellflower (Campanula sharsmithiae North Morin). Foundation in San Francisco Bay Area (Mountain Hamilton Range).