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, February 19, 2011

Plants keyed out during our collaborative workshop at the UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity:

1. Scabiosa atropurpurea (Dipsacaceae)
2. Crassula sp. (Crassulaceae)
3. Grindelia c.f. stricta var. platycarpa (Asteraceae)
4. Prunus dulcis (Rosaceae)
5. Encelia farinosa hybrid (Asteraceae)
6. Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum (Grossulariaceae)

The Scabiosa (from our last workshop in Sacramento, see #4 below) we finally ironed out with confidence using herbarium specimens. This is a very crazy looking plant under the scope! The area it was collected from in Placerville is likely a range extension for this naturalized plant.