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, February 21, 2009

Plants keyed out during our Carex workshop at UC Davis. Thanks to Mark Bibbo and Ellen Dean!

  1. Carex aquatilis
  2. Carex angustata
  3. Carex utriculata
  4. Carex vesicaria
  5. Carex nebrascensis

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Plants we keyed out during our plant ID workshop in Sacramento at the CNPS state offices:

  1. Melica imperfecta
  2. Brachypodium distachyon
  3. Leptochloa fascicularis
  4. Salix lasiolepis
  5. Setaria sp. - likely S. gracilis
  6. Alopecurus saccatus
  7. Agrostis pallens

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Plants we keyed out during our plant ID workshop in Sacramento (at the CNPS state offices):

  1. Gastridium phleoides [Gastridium ventricosum]
  2. Melica imperfecta
  3. Leptochloa fascicularis
  4. Setaria gracilis
  5. Andropogon virginicus var. virginicus
  6. Bromus hordeaceus
  7. Taeniatherum caput-medusae
  8. Poa sp.