Articles tagged with: Golden Poppy

Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon

1836 – 1923

Botanist

Sara Lemmon is a name that most people probably have never heard of before. However she was a major player in helping to designate one of California’s most important and well-known symbols. So important was this symbol that it was even honored with its own day in 1974. It is because of Sara Plummer Lemmon that the Golden Poppy would be designated as California’s state flower.