Welcome to Ceanothus ~ See, I Know This!

We are an association of professional, hobby, and student field botanists interested in educating each other to KEEP BOTANY ALIVE! Our desire is to create a supportive environment to learn botany identification skills from one another and to share our knowledge of plants and plant communities.

We meet regularly in the Sierra foothills, Sacramento, and (*new*) Chico, California, regions to practice keying out plants using The Jepson Manual and other plant identification resoures.

Our goals:
* To practice identifying plants;
* To use The Jepson Manual (and other identification resources) and become more familiar with plant terminology;
* To share our knowledge and educate each other about plant taxonomy;
* To discuss and learn about our California plant communities; and
* To have fun!


If you are interested in attending our regular plant identification workshops, please send an email to Ceanothusfieldbot [at] gmail [dot] com and we will respond quickly!

Calendar (click on event for more information)

Workshop Plant Lists

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Plants we keyed out during our workshop in Rocklin (links will take you to corresponding photos on the CalPhotos website):

  1. Platystemon californicus
  2. Dodecatheon hendersonii
  3. Claytonia parviflora ssp. grandiflora
  4. Ceanothus cuneatus var. cuneatus
  5. Arctostaphylos viscida
  6. Alopecurus pratensis
  7. Lasthenia glabrata ssp. glabrata

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Plants keyed-out during our workshop at the Center for Plant Diversity (UCD herbarium):

  1. Cynoglossum grande
  2. Ribes roezlii var. roezlii
  3. Arbutus menziesii
  4. Isopyrum occidentale
  5. Rumex acetosella
  6. Ranunculus uncinatus (similar to R. occidentalis; however, decided against R. occidentalis due to the 1-2 mm difference between the sepal and petal length)
  7. Acer negundo var. californicum
  8. Platanus racemosa

Thursday, March 6, 2008

The list of plants keyed out at our March 6th workshop at the Splash Center - Mather Field in Sacramento:

  1. Avena barbata
  2. Bromus diandrus
  3. Poa bulbosa

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