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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOTANISTS BOTANICAL LEAFLETS ISSUE 17 SPRING 2016 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE It’s been an interesting spring Forests. This was Marla this year at $1,000 each. OFFICERS here in northern California. Knight’s 23rd show and the Two of these were awarded We are having wonderful last as a Klamath NF Em- with money provided by the President: Linnea Hanson cool temperatures with rain ployee. Enjoy retirement Shasta and the Sacramento Vice President: Samantha and snow in the mountains. Marla! Valley Chapters of the Cali- Hillaire Quite a contrast to last fornia Native Plant Society. After serving on the Board Secretary: Barbara Castro spring with the extreme In addition, Julie Nelson for 5 years, Jessica Ham- drought! I helped teach a donated her stipend for Treasurer: Gail Kuenster mond has stepped down. Plant Families workshop in teaching a workshop for the MEMBERS-AT-LARGE Thank you for all your hard April for the Friends of the Siskiyou Institute which work Jessica! Matt Guilliams Chico State Herbarium. We allowed for one more schol- Brett Hall collected flowers in the Sac- NCB has completed it’s arship. What a wonderful ramento Valley as well as review of the 2016-2017 collaborative effort! Lawrence Janeway along Highway 70 in the research scholarship applica- Julie Kierstead Nelson Have a wonderful summer Feather River Canyon. I also tions. We received numer- Robert Schlising pursuing your many vast helped with the Siskiyou ous fantastic applications botanical adventures. Teresa Sholars Wildflower Show in Yreka which made it hard to make Daria Snider sponsored by the Klamath the selections! We will be Linnea Hanson and Shasta Trinity National awarding 10 scholarships President Jane Van Susteren Jenn Yost Newsletter Editor: WELCOME TERESA SHOLARS TO THE NCB BOARD! Gail Kuenster Northern California Botanists is pleased to announce the appointment of Teresa Sholars to the Board. Teresa is Professor Emeritus of Biology & Sustainable Agriculture, College of the INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Redwoods. She is currently working on treatments for Lupinus for the Flora of North Ameri- PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 1 ca and the Flora of Arizona and current projects include mapping and studying the Pygmy and Bishop Pine Forest. She serves as the rare plant and vegetation chair in her local CNPS WELCOME TO THE BOARD 1 Dorothy King Young Chapter and has presented at past NCB Symposia. Welcome Teresa! MYSTERY PLANT 1 NCB 2017 SYMPOSIUM 2 MYSTERY PLANT This shrub or small tree has deciduous alternate, compound leaves. Flowers develop into sama- THANK YOU 2016 SPONSORS 2 ras, winged all around. The fruits (as well as fine CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS 2 stems and undersides of leaves) are dotted with aromatic glands. This is the only species in its 2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKER 3 genus that is native to California, but a few other 2016-2017 SCHOLARSHIPS 3 family members occur in the state, and are even BOTANISTS IN ACTION 4 cultivated for food. This plant is found in wood- lands up to about 1000 m in northern and cen- NATURALIST AWARD 5 tral California. SISKIYOU FI WORKSHOPS 5 Photo by Robert Fischer (Answer on Page 2) FRIENDS OF CSH WORKSHOPS 5 PAGE 2 BOTANICAL LEAFLETS NCB 2017 SYMPOSIUM—SAVE THE DATE! The NCB Board is busy planning the Now the Good News, and New Dis- more detail! next symposium to be held on January coveries. The Reception will again be held on 9-10, 2017 at the California State Uni- For the last session on Monday, we plan Monday evening in Colusa Hall be- versity in Chico. Optional workshops to have a half hour of six lightning talks cause of restrictions in the Bell Memo- will be held on the 11th. The theme of with each talk only 5 minutes long. rial Union (BMU). Colusa Hall is just next year’s symposium will be That was a very successful feature we a few minutes walk from the BMU. “Diverse Environments: How Plants added to the program last year. A re- The poster session will be on Tuesday Succeed “and will include sessions on quest for lightning talks will be sent out morning. Poster authors will be pre- the Great Basin, Plants in the Fog, In- in late summer or early fall so watch sent to answer questions. Coffee and sects on Plants, Seeds, Endemics, And your emails and the NCB website for breakfast food will be available also. THANK YOU TO OUR 2016 SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS Thank you to our many 2016 Symposi- ENPLAN Southern California Botanists um sponsors! Friends of the Chico State Herbarium Stillwater Sciences Bureau of Land Management, Califor- Garcia and Associates Jepson & University Herbaria, UCB nia State Office Hedgerow Farms Westervelt Ecological Services California Invasive Plant Council HDR, Inc. WRA, Inc. California Native Grasslands Associa- tion James R. & Julie K. Nelson More information about sponsoring the 2017 Symposium will be available California Native Plant Society (State Lawrence Janeway on our website soon or by contacting Office; Redbud, Sacramento Valley, Nomad Ecology Shasta, and Yerba Buena chapters) [email protected] now. Spon- Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden sorship helps keep registration rates The Chico State Herbarium Ray Collett Trust low and supports student attendance. CSUC, College of Natural Sciences We can’t do it without your support. Santa Barbara Botanic Garden CSUC, Dept. of Biological Sciences Sierra Pacific Foundation NCB INVITES YOU TO PRESENT A PAPER OR POSTER AT THE 2017 SYMPOSIUM The Northern California Botanists in- your subject. An abstract will be re- tion of several rare species in northern vite you to share your work at the quested later if your talk is accepted. California, mapping of a plant commu- 2017 Symposium. We have openings The New Discoveries sessions at past nity as a critical step towards successful for speakers in the “New Discoveries” NCB Symposia have been very popular. conservation, and an important correc- and “And Now the Good News” ses- Talks at this session commonly involve tion to boundary of a distinct northern sions. Four or five talks will be select- new species, but may also include re- California geographic subdivision. Our ed for each session and will be twenty discovery of species previously thought designated poster session will be Tues- minutes each (15 minutes for the talk to be extinct, new understandings of a day morning and will allow poster and 5 minutes for questions). Please species’ (or group of species) identifica- presenters to interact with symposium let us know if you would like be a pre- tion or its distribution, changes in man- attendees. More information will be senter in one of the sessions by July 10, agement resulting from changes in un- available on our website in September. 2016 by emailing derstanding, and other similar topics. Please consider presenting a poster. [email protected] and include: The "And Now the Good News" ses- You can view abstracts from previous title of the talk, presenter’s name and sion at the last NCB Symposium was year talks and from posters presenters affiliation, which session you are inter- also very popular. Talks at this session in previous year Symposia programs at: ested in, and a paragraph describing last year included successes in conserva- http://www.norcalbotanists.org/ Answer to “Mystery Plant”: Ptelea crenulata Greene (Rutaceae) Hop Tree ISSUE 17 PAGE 3 DR. HUGH SAFFORD—2017 SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE SPEAKER We are happy to announce that Hugh ance ecology. Hugh manages the Forest California Fire Science Delivery Con- Safford will be our 2017 Keynote Service’s Regional Ecology Program, a sortium, and a member of the science Speaker. Hugh is the Regional Ecol- staff of ecologists that provide expertise advisory boards for a number of envi- ogist for the USDA-Forest Service’s in vegetation, fire, and restoration ronmental collaboratives and Non- Pacific Southwest Region and also ecology, climate change, inventory, Government Organizations. Hugh also holds a research position in the Depart- and monitoring to land management works internationally and provides ment of Environmental Science and and planning efforts on the National technical assistance on fire, forest man- Policy at the University of California, Forests in the Pacific Southwest Re- agement, and climate change issues to Davis. His areas of professional exper- gion. He is also the manager of the Re- the US-Agency for International De- tise are restoration ecology, communi- gional Research Natural Area program, velopment (USAID) and the Interna- ty ecology, biogeography, and disturb- the Sierra Nevada region leader for the tional Program of the Forest Service. 2016-2017 STUDENT RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS The Northern California Botanists provides monetary scholarships for students doing research on botanical subjects in north- ern and central California. Both the Sacramento Valley and Shasta chapters of CNPS generously support this program by funding an additional scholarship each. We received 30 applications this year and as usual there were many great research projects to choose from. Abstracts and photos of each recipient and project will be included in our Fall newsletter. Congrat- ulations to these ten students and thank you to all that submitted applications! 2016-2017 NCB RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS Degree Recipient College Title of Research Project Program Temitope Israel PhD University of Nevada, Genetic diversity, distribution modeling, and soil seed bank Borokini Reno density studies on threatened Ivesia webberi Gray. Amanda Blue Everett MS California State Univer- The Phylogeny of Pogogyne: an Evolutionary Assessment using * Shasta Chapter sity, San Diego ddRADseq. CNPS Scholarship* Jacob Francis PhD University of Nevada, Do nectary plants make good neighbors? Facilitation and Reno competition between pollen rewarding plants and their com- munities. John Mola PhD University of California, Colorful pollination competition between native and invasive Davis co-flowering legumes. Devon Picklum PhD University of Nevada, Is pollination facilitated by multi-trait floral similarity in two Reno alpine plant species? Katherine Ross PhD University of California, Physiological sensitivity of eastern Sierra Nevada conifers to Santa Cruz climate change.