Lucy Moore (botanist)

Early life and education Moore was born in Warkworth, New Zealand, on 14 July 1906, the daughter of Janet Morison and Harry Blomfield Moore, and the grand-daughter of William and Frances Moore. William was also known as "Rainbow Will", from his gold prospecting days in the Coromandel area. She went to primary school at Warkworth Allan's death in 1957 left her with editorial responsibility for the whole project. In 1986 she gave another lecture, the inaugural Lucy Cranwell Lecture to the Auckland Botanical Society. Death Moore died on 9 June 1987 at her Orewa rest home. ==Published works==

Along with the above-mentioned books, Moore published numerous scientific papers on a range of subjects including marine and terrestrial ecology, the taxonomy of flowering plants, seaweeds and barnacles, plant geography, flower biology, carpology and the history of New Zealand botany. ==Honours and awards==

In 1945, Moore was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1959 Queen's Birthday Honours, and in 1963 the University of Canterbury gave her its DSc for her Hebe research. A fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 1947, she was awarded its Hutton Medal in 1965. In the same year she delivered the Leonard Cockayne Memorial Lecture. In 1974 she was awarded the Sir Ernest Marsden Medal for Service to Science by the New Zealand Association of Scientists. The Mere that Moore donated for the prize is housed at the Allan Herbarium at Landcare Research, Lincoln. Lucy Moore Memorial Park in Warkworth is named after her. The New Zealand native grass species Festuca luciarum is named after Moore and her fellow botanist Lucy Cranwell. In 2017, Moore was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand. ==Authority abbreviation==