title: LeRoy Abrams
text: # LeRoy Abrams
  
  LeRoy Abrams (1874–1956) was an American botanist and writer. He was a Professor of Botany at Stanford University. He wrote and illustrated a four-volume Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States, with the final volume published posthumously, after compilation and editing by Roxanna Ferris.
  
  He and his wife had a home overlooking the Santa Clara Valley. Their only child, a daughter, predeceased him.
  
  The standard author abbreviation Abrams is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
  
  