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, July 31, 2008

Plants keyed out during our workshop in Rocklin:

  1. Polemonium occidentale
  2. Juncus nevadensis var. nevadensis
  3. Juncus patens
  4. Sidalcea oregana ssp. oregana
  5. Sidalcea glaucescens
  6. Carthamus tinctorius
  7. Monardella sheltonii
  8. Phleum pratense
  9. Lotus oblongifolius var. oblongifolius

Thursday, July 24, 2008

We had a fun time at our workshop in Auburn. We reviewed a bunch of Juncaceae species Melissa collected during her recent workshop at the Sagehen Creek Field Station. She also introduced us to the Juncaceae treatment for the upcoming Jepson, which is fairly easy to use! :) Here are a couple non-Juncaceae plants we keyed out:

  1. Holodiscus microphyllus var. microphyllus
  2. Horkelia tenuiloba ?

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Plants keyed out during our workshop in Auburn:

  1. Mentha arvensis
  2. Lycopus americanus
  3. Amaranthus albus
  4. Madia elegans ssp. elegans
  5. Helenium puberulum
  6. Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum [Nasturtium officinale]
  7. Epilobium densiflorum

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Plants keyed out during our workshop at the Center for Plant Diversity, UC Davis:

  1. Scrophularia californica ssp. californica
  2. Scrophularia auriculata - 'Variegata' ornamental
  3. Solanum rostratum
  4. Calyptridium monospermum
  5. Ivesia santolinoides
  6. Nepeta cataria
  7. Hemizonia fasciculata [Deinandra fasciculata]

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