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)

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Plants keyed out during our workshop at the CNPS state office in Sacramento: (We worked with dried, pressed specimens.)

  1. Navarretia leucocephala ssp. leucocephala
  2. Navarretia pubescens
  3. Navarretia hamata ssp. hamata
  4. Navarretia nigelliformis ssp. nigelliformis
  5. Trifolium microcephalum
  6. Trifolium obtusiflorum
  7. Trifolium glomeratum

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

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

  1. Rosmarinus officinalis
  2. Arctostaphylos nummularia ssp. nummularia [Arctostaphylos nummularia]
  3. Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
  4. Dysphania botrys [Chenopodium botrys]
  5. Bromus diandrus

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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

  1. Cynodon dactylon
  2. Distichlis spicata
  3. Vulpia bromoides
  4. Eriogonum fasciculatum