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, May 29, 2008

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

  1. Gensia rammii [Madia rammii]
  2. Veronica anagallis-aquatica
  3. Epilobium cleistogamum
  4. Swertia albicaulis var. nitida
  5. Clarkia unguiculata
  6. Scutellaria antirrhinoides

Thursday, May 15, 2008

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

  1. Lasthenia californica
  2. Erigeron philadelphicus
  3. Cynosurus echinatus - has unique sterile spikelets
  4. Hordeum murinum ssp. murinum - the glumes resemble narrow awns!
  5. Nemophila pulchella var. pulchella

Thursday, May 8, 2008

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

  1. Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea [Sambucus mexicana]
  2. Matricaria discoidea [Chamomilla suaveolens]
  3. Salix gooddingii
  4. Salix exigua

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Plants we keyed out during our workshop in Auburn:

  1. Cornus nuttallii
  2. Orobanche fasciculata
  3. Mimulus aurantiacus
  4. Triteleia ixioides ssp. scabra
  5. Lomatium utriculatum

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