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

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Plants collected in the Eureka Valley of the Mojave Desert & identified during our plant ID workshop at the Center for Plant Diversity (UC Davis):

  1. Eriogonum exaltatum (keyed out in new Polygonaceae treatment in 2nd edition of the Jepson Manual)
  2. Eriogonum maculatum ?
  3. Ericameria nauseosus - likely ssp. leiosperma [Chrysothamnus nauseosus ssp. leiospermus]

Friday, September 25, 2009

Plants keyed out during our plant ID workshop at the Chico State Herbarium:

  1. Leucanthemum vulgare
  2. Kelloggia galioides
  3. Lupinus latifolius var. columbianus ?
  4. Potentilla glandulosa
  5. Potentilla gracilis

Friday, September 11, 2009

Plants identified at The Chico State Herbarium:
1. Hemizonia fitchii
2. Hemizonia parryi ssp. rudis