Margaret Warriner Buck

Margaret Warriner Buck (April 29, 1857 - April 5, 1929) was an American botanical artist known as a specialist in depicting California wildflowers.

She gained a reputation as a botanical artist and specialist in depicting California wildflowers.

[2] In the 1890s, she and writer Mary Elizabeth Parsons hiked around California with an eye to publishing a book about California flora.

The result was the very successful The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits (1897), written by Parsons with over 100 illustrations engraved from Buck's pen-and-ink drawings.

[5][6] After the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, she worked for Sunset magazine.

Rein-orchis ( Habenaria elegans ), from a drawing by Margaret Warriner Buck for The Wild Flowers of California
Ladies' Tresses or Spiranthes Romanzoffianum (now Spiranthes romanzoffiana ), from a drawing by Margaret Warriner Buck for The Wild Flowers of California