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)

Saturday, October 25, 2008

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

  1. Dittrichia graveolens
  2. Hypericum canadense - native to the Pacific Northwest and East Coast
  3. Baccharis douglasii
  4. Baccharis pilularis ssp. consanguinea
  5. Artemisia douglasiana
  6. Crypsis vaginiflora

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Plants keyed out during our workshop in Auburn (links take you to photographs on the CalPhotos website):

  1. Eriogonum nudum var. pubiflorum
  2. Phytolacca americana
  3. Silene sp.
  4. Brickellia californica
  5. Heterotheca oregana var. compacta - identified by another botanist after our workshop, unable to key in Jepson (rayless Heterotheca)

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Plants keyed out during our workshop in Rocklin:

  1. Lessingia glandulifera var. glandulifera
  2. Mentha pulegium
  3. Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum [Gnaphalium luteo-album]
  4. Pinus radiata
  5. Heterotheca grandiflora

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Plants keyed out during our workshop in Rocklin:

  1. Lonicera japonica
  2. Euthamia occidentalis
  3. Cordylanthus pilosus ssp. hansenii
  4. Brickellia californica
  5. Muhlenbergia rigens
  6. Stachys ajugoides var. rigida