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, June 19, 2008

Plants keyed out during our workshop in Rocklin:

  1. Zeltnera muehlenbergii [Centaurium muhlenbergii]
  2. Heliotropium curassavicum
  3. Mentha pulegium
  4. Lupinus lepidus var. sellulus
  5. Thermopsis gracilis [Thermopsis macrophylla var. venosa]
  6. Polygala californica
  7. Deschampsia danthonioides

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Plants we keyed out during our workshop at the UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity (links will take you to photos on the CalPhotos website):

  1. Linum lewisii var. alpicola
  2. Asclepias eriocarpa
  3. Asclepias fascicularis
  4. Eriastrum sapphirinum ~ 5, 5, 5, 3, Pol-e-mon-iaceae ;)
  5. Phacelia hastata ssp. compacta
  6. Elymus elymoides ssp. californicus