John Charles Frémont
Aparença
John Charles Frémont (anglès: John C. Frémont) (Savannah, 21 de gener de 1813 - Manhattan, 13 de juliol de 1890) va ser un explorador i polític estatunidenc. Durant la dècada de 1840 va dirigir quatre expedicions a l'oest nord-americà.[1]
Epònims de plantes
[modifica]- Western rosinweed (Calycadenia fremontii)
- pincushion flower (Chaenactis fremontii)
- goosefoot (Chenopodium fremontii)
- California flannelbush (Fremontodendron californicum)
- Mexican flannelbush (Fremontodendron mexicanum)
- silk tassel (Garrya fremontii)
- moss gentian (Gentiana fremontii)
- vernal pool goldfields (Lasthenia fremontii)
- tidytips (Layia fremontii)
- desert pepperweed (Lepidium fremontii)
- desert boxthorn (Lycium fremontii)
- barberry (Mahonia fremontii)
- bush mallow (Malacothamnus fremontii)
- monkeyflower (Mimulus fremontii)
- phacelia (Phacelia fremontii)
- desert combleaf (Polyctenium fremontii)
- cottonwood tree (Populus fremontii)
- desert apricot (Prunus fremontii)
- indigo bush (Psorothamnus fremontii)
- mountain ragwort (Senecio fremontii)
- yellowray gold (Syntrichopappus fremontii)
- chaparral death camas (Toxicoscordion fremontii)
Llocs
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Ciutats i poblacions:
- Fremont (Califòrnia)
- Fremont, Indiana
- Fremont, Michigan
- Fremont, Minnesota
- Fremont, Nebraska
- Fremont, New Hampshire
- Fremont, Steuben County, New York
- Fremont, Sullivan County, New York
- Fremont, Ohio
- Fremont, Utah
- Fremont, Clark County, Wisconsin
- Fremont, Waupaca County, Wisconsin (town)
- Fremont, Wisconsin, (village; also in Waupaca County)
Característiques geogràfiques:
- Fremont Peak (Wyoming) a les Wind River Mountains
- Fremont Peak (California) a San Benito County, Califòrnia
- Fremont Peak a San Francisco Peaks
- Fremont Island a Great Salt Lake
- Fremont Canyon on the North Platte River a Wyoming
- Fremont River (Utah), un afluent del Colorado River
Referències
[modifica]- ↑ Allan Nevins, Frémont, the West's Greatest Adventurer: Being a Biography from Certain Hitherto Unpublished Sources of General John C. Frémont, Together with His Wife, Jessie Benton Frémont, and Some Account of the Period of Expansion which Found a Brilliant Leader in the Pathfinder (1928)