Honors and Achievements
- His colleagues honored him with the Faculty Research Lectureship in 1934
- He was president of the California Botanical Society, 1913-15
- 1918-29 fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Arts, and American Geographical Society
- Delegate to the International Agricultural Congress at Liége (1906), the International Botanical Congresses at Cambridge (1930) and Amsterdam (1935)
- Foreign member of the Société Linnéenne de Lyon and the National Botanical Society of Czechoslovakia
- Councilor of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
- Life member of the American Genetic Association; and member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Botanical Society of America, Society of Foresters, Washington Academy of Sciences, Western Society of Naturalists, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi.
- The Saxifragaceae genus Jepsonia and host of commemorative specific plants are named after him.
- The Jepson Herbarium at the University of California, Berkeley is named for him.
- The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California is named in his honor.
- Willis Jepson Middle School is named after him in Vacaville,California.
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