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, April 24, 2008

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

  1. Plagiobothrys nothofulvus
  2. Plagiobothrys fulvus
  3. Allium hyalinum
  4. Ceanothus integerrimus

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Plants we keyed out during our plant ID workshop at the UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity:

  1. Trifolium dubium
  2. Trifolium hirtum
  3. Trifolium variegatum
  4. Trifolium depauperatum var. depauperatum
  5. Vicia villosa ssp. villosa
  6. Lupinus albifrons var. albifrons
  7. Logfia gallica [Filago gallica]

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Plants we keyed out during our workshop in Auburn:

  1. Delphinium sp. - if anyone can recommend a good Delphinium spp. key, please let us know!
  2. Lasthenia fremontii
  3. Plectritis macrocera

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Plants keyed out at our April 3rd workshop at the Splash Center - Mather Field in Sacramento:

  1. Tamarix parviflora
  2. Malva nicaeensis