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

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

During our plant identification workshop in Grass Valley, we worked with a few plants from the BriarPatch Native Plant Demonstration Garden. The garden is maintained by the Redbud Chapter of CNPS. The following are the native, perennial grasses we keyed out:

  1. Hordeum brachyantherum ssp. brachyantherum
  2. Festuca idahoensis
  3. Poa secunda ssp. secunda

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Plants keyed out during our workshop in Rocklin:

  1. Clarkia concinna ssp. concinna
  2. Lepidium flavum var. flavum
  3. Lathyrus vestitus var. vestitus
  4. Sphaeralcea ambigua var. rugosa
  5. Astragalus breweri or A. rattanii ?

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Plants collected near Kramer Junction (Hwy 395 and SR 58) in the Mojave Desert. Keyed out during our workshop at the Center for Plant Diversity at UC Davis:

  1. Syntrichopappus fremontii
  2. Leptosyne calliopsidea [Coreopsis calliopsidea]
  3. Pectocarya recurvata
  4. Pectocarya sp. - likely P. linearis ssp. ferocula and/or P. platycarpa
  5. Lupinus odoratus
  6. Mentzelia albicaulis

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