John Torrey (August 15, 1796 – March 10, 1873) was an American botanist, chemist, and physician. Throughout much of his career, he was a teacher of chemistry...

Torrey Joël DeVitto (born June 8, 1984) is an American actress and former fashion model. Her first starring role was as Karen Kerr on the ABC Family drama...

County. The Torrey pine is endemic to the California coastal sage and chaparral ecoregion. The species epithet torreyana is named for John Torrey, an American...

John Torrey Morse Jr. (January 9, 1840 – March 28, 1937) was an American historian, attorney, and politician. John Torrey Morse was born in Boston, Massachusetts...

botanist Charles C. Parry, named the peak for his botanist colleague John Torrey. Torrey actually did not see the peak until 1872, 11 years later (the year...

Yucca baccata (datil yucca or banana yucca, also known as Spanish bayonet and broadleaf yucca) is a common species of yucca native to the deserts of the...

film In Harm's Way, played by John Wayne Torrey, New York, United States, a town Torrey, Utah, United States, a town Torrey Mountain, Montana - see List...

Torrey Botanical Society (formerly Torrey Botanical Club) was started in the 1860s by colleagues of John Torrey. It is the oldest botanical society in...

Theatre West: Image and Impact. Rodopi. p. 36. ISBN 90-5183-125-0. Morse, John Torrey (1899). Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Vol. 1. Houghton,...

var. torreyi (Greene) Smiley (syn. subsp. torreyi (Greene) A.E.Murray; Torrey maple) – endemic-Northern California Acer glabrum is plentiful in many parts...

Celtis reticulata, with common names including netleaf hackberry, western hackberry, Douglas hackberry, netleaf sugar hackberry, palo blanco, and acibuche...

cases from Bent's Fort and San Francisco were sent back east to botanist John Torrey by the USS Erie. The incident did not reflect well on Frémont and his...

Brackenridge at Mount Shasta, Northern California. In 1853, it was described by John Torrey, naming the genus Darlingtonia after Philadelphian botanist William Darlington...

Carpenteria /ˌkɑːrpənˈtɪəriə ˌkælɪˈfɔːrnɪkə/, the tree anemone or bush anemone, is a genus of flowering plants in the hydrangea family Hydrangeaceae. It...

Encelia farinosa (commonly known as brittlebush, brittlebrush, or incienso), is a common desert shrub of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico...

Iris macrosiphon, the bowltube iris, is a flowering plant in the iris family, endemic to California in the Cascade Range Foothills, north and central Sierra...

listed as "vulnerable" in the IUCN Red List. Torreya is named for Dr. John Torrey (1796-1873), an American botanist who contributed to the Flora of North...

Thomas Nuttall, was ascribed to the species by the American botanists John Torrey and Asa Gray when it was officially described in 1857. A number of former...

Pine. Its description is attributed to American politician and explorer John C. Frémont. During the mid-nineteenth century, many pinyon groves were cut...

are fertilized, they develop into greenish-white or tan drupes. Botanist John Howell observed that the plant's toxicity obscures its aesthetic values:...

Charles Wright first collected the plant in 1849 and it was described by John Torrey in 1859. It is an indicator species in the Chihuahuan Desert, the only...

Clematis pitcheri is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name bluebill. It is a herbaceous, perennial vine found in...

lacking in T. albidum. In 1856, John Torrey described Trillium sessile var. chloropetalum based on a specimen collected by John Milton Bigelow two years earlier...

Quercus emoryi, the Emory oak, is a species of oak common in Arizona (including inside Saguaro National Park), New Mexico and western Texas (including...

ISBN 978-0-55-339396-5. Morse, John Torrey (1893). Abraham Lincoln. Vol. I. Cambridge, Mass., Riverside Press. Morse, John Torrey (1893). Abraham Lincoln. Vol...

Schweinitz's sunflower as an endangered species on May 7, 1991. Botanists John Torrey (1796-1873) and Asa Gray (1810-1888) first mentioned the species in 1842...

James Torrey Smith (born January 26, 1989) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL)...

Mentzelia laevicaulis is a showy wildflower native to western North America. Its common names include giant blazingstar and smoothstem blazingstar. This...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Agave parviflora. Agave parviflora is a species of succulent perennial flowering plant in the asparagus family,...

Dalea formosa is a semi-evergreen[1] species of flowering plant in the genus Dalea, known by the common names feather dalea and featherplume; it is named...