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.

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Workshop Plant Lists

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