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, August 22, 2009

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

1. Solidago californica
2. Cirsium arvense
3. Juncus effusus var. pacificus
4. Ceanothus fresnensis
5. Tanacetum camphoratum
6. Glehnia littoralis

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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

  1. Trichostema lanceolatum
  2. Monardella glauca
  3. Eriogonum umbellatum var. polyanthum
  4. Hemizonia congesta ssp. congesta ?
  5. Veratrum insolitum
  6. Lilium bolanderi