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!

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Workshop Plant Lists

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The following are plants we keyed out at our workshop at the Center for Plant Diversity, UC Davis. We had an excellent turnout & a great time!

1. Isomeris arborea (Capparaceae, soon to be Brassicaceae)
2. Arctostaphylos sp. (Ericaceae)
3. Salix lasiolepis (Salicaceae)
4. Sphaeralcea ambigua var. rugosa (Malvaceae)
5. Cardamine californica (possibly C. var. sinuata out of range) (Brassicaceae)
6. Garrya sp. (maybe G. fremontii) (Garryaceae)