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 northern California 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 (Second Edition) 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 learning more about our collaborative plant identification workshops, please send an email to Ceanothusfieldbot [at] gmail [dot] com.

Calendar (click on event for more information)

Workshop Plant Lists

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Thanks for your interest! We will be taking a break for the holidays and will start up again on Thursday January 3rd in Auburn. We've had a lot of response from people who live in Sacramento, so we will try to have some upcoming meetings in Sacramento. We're considering rotating our meeting locations between Auburn, Roseville, and Sacramento; however, we need a place in Roseville and Sacramento to meet. If anyone knows of a place we could use for our meetings, please contact us at the email posted on this website. Preferably the meeting location should have at least one microscope and access to the internet. Also, for our meetings you will need (at a minimum) a hand lens and a Jepson. Please check back for further updates! Looking forward to keying out some plants!