THE JEPSON GLOBE A Newsletter from the Friends of The Jepson Herbarium

VOLUME 20 NUMBER 3, Fall 2010

Curator’s Column: Distinguished Sabbatical Visitors Continuing Discoveries in Investigate California Plants California Floristics Toward the end of last year, Bruce By Bruce G. Baldwin Baldwin hosted two distinguished As we conclude the final phase of visitors, Professor Joachim W. Kadereit editing of the revised Jepson Manual, from the Institute of Systematic most treatments already have been Botany and Botanic Garden, Johannes posted for online viewing (see http:// Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, ucjeps.berkeley.edu/jepsonmanual/ and Dr. Gudrun Kadereit from the review/) and the great magnitude of Botanical Institute, Univ. of Mainz. change in understanding of California’s They came to Berkeley with their four flora since 1993 is beginning to be children and while they were here, they were involved in several collaborative absorbed by botanists everywhere, prior projects described below. to publication. An especially valuable The two projects pursued by Joachim outcome of the effort by our many during his visit originated from his dedicated authors to produce revised interest in the systematics and phylogeny floristic treatments for the newManual of Papaveraceae and the subfamily is major progress in systematic studies The Bay Area Early Detection Papaveroideae, which consists of two of Californian plants. As a result of major lineages, a New World lineage the stimulus provided by the Manual Network — An Exciting New Collaboration with Arctomecon, Argemone, Romneya, project, discoveries of new Californian Canbya, Hesperomecon, Meconella, and plant lineages have been made recently, The University and Jepson Her- Platystemon, and a primarily Old World and are reflected in part by new taxa baria, along with more than 100 other lineage with Meconopsis, Papaver, recognized in the revised treatments. organizations, are now partners in the Roemeria, and Stylomecon. Other discoveries could not be Bay Area Early Detection Network In the mostly Old World lineage, incorporated in the revised Manual (BAEDN). BAEDN is an initiative that Papaver californicum and Stylomecon because of insufficient time to publish coordinates early detection and rapid re- heterophylla are the only New World formal descriptions of new taxa in sponse to plant invasions across the nine representatives (apart from some arctic- scientific journals, but are nonetheless counties of the San Francisco Bay Area. alpine poppies). Although quite unlike in a by-product of the project and will be BAEDN works to proactively deal with capsule morphology — P. californicum incorporated in the online version of the highest priority outbreaks before (Continued on page 5.) the Jepson Manual after valid publi- they grow into large and costly threats. cation elsewhere. Our intent for the BAEDN partners are working together ALSO IN THIS ISSUE future is to revise floristic treatments to develop a scientifically rigorous list Leaf Venation Enhancement as needed, so that the online Manual of the most harmful invasive plants, Mike Park Awarded a DDIG will track progress as it occurs rather train each other in detection techniques, than on a once-per-decade or longer make detections and report them to the Mistletoe Acquisition time interval. As the threats to Cali- shared database, Calflora; intriguing Recent Books and Discoveries fornia’s flora magnify and the pace of finds are vouchered and included in Welcome Jeanne Marie Acceturo discovery quickens, more vigilance will the Consortium of California Herbaria Welcome Amy Kasameyer be necessary to ensure that taxonomies database as well. Individual populations (Continued on page 4.) (Continued on page 10.) Cover image by Andrea Williams 1 Digital Photographic Leaf Venation Enhancement: Investigating Fossil Plants from the Eocene Douglas Creek Arch Flora By Bruce Handley Research Associate, University of California Museum of Paleontology I am working on a fossil flora (pa- leoflora) project entitled “The Eocene Douglas Creek Arch Flora of North- western Colorado and Northeastern Utah”. This paleoflora was deposited in advance of a prograding delta push- ing into the closing phase of ancient Lake Unita. Lake Uinta, located today in eastern Utah, was one of the largest fossil lakes preserved within the Eocene Photo B. Step 1 cropped digital Photo C. Step 2 cropped digital photo Green River Formation deposited over photo of herbarium specimen, of herbarium specimen enhanced by non-destructive. LED array, non-destructive. 50 million years ago. Vein patterns in the Douglas Creek Arch (DCA) leaves paleoflora is limited to isolated fossil lighting. Step 2 is to photograph the are so well preserved they can be com- leaves. There are many constraints in- herbarium specimen with bright light pared to modern herbaria specimens, herently built into the identification of from an LED array that is transmitted with most fossil leaves identifiable to fossil leaves but I am using a technique up through the specimen from below as genus. Based on these modern plant that I hope will improve my ability to seen in photo-C. comparisons, in combination with geo- identify leaves. Using digital images of I’ll be working on this project for logical data, we know the Uinta plants herbarium specimens, I can compare years to come and would like to thank grew in the lake, along its margin, in leaf architectural characters of fossil all the people and botanists that have area wetlands and on the surrounding plants and extant plants to determine contributed to making the University low hills of the DCA roughly 46 million their nearest living relative. This is not and Jepson Herbaria a tremendous re- years ago. a phylogenetic approach but rather one source of the world’s flora. Special My study is not unlike that of many that relies on morphological compari- thanks go to Andrew Doran and the staff other paleobotanists since much of the sons and statistical inferences. of the University and Jepson Herbaria The technique I am using, digital and Diane M. Erwin of UCMP for their photographic leaf enhancement, digi- assistance and support of this project. tally preserves the leaf morphology and architectural characters of herbarium specimens. This is a non-destructive method that produces a high-resolution digital image of the herbarium specimen and an enhanced venation record using a specially constructed photo stand light box. The results vary from excel- lent to no enhancement. The method is preferable to the older method of clear- ing leaves, which was destructive to herbarium specimens, time consuming, and exposed the researcher to harmful chemicals (Photo A). The digital photographic leaf en- hancement technique can be summa- Photo A. An example of a cleared leaf. rized as follows: Step 1 is to photograph Photo D - Fossil Populus leaf from the (UCMP), removed from a UC her- the herbarium specimen as seen in Douglas Creek Arch paleoflora show- barium specimen. Destructive method. photo-B using just side and overhead ing well-preserved veins.

2 Mike Park Awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from NSF

photosynthetic capacity that satisfies the vironmental plasticity, or a mixture of energetic demands of reproduction. Ac- both. Growth-chamber experiments quisition of heterophylly is thought to will provide the first test to distinguish be associated with the switch to vernal among the three alternative processes pool habitats. and, in turn, will help to inform evo- Phylogenetic methods using lutionary understanding of a possible nrDNA (ITS), chloroplast (trnQ-5’trnK), key-innovation of vernal pool lineages. and single-copy nuclear (LEAFY, 2nd Because vernal pools are one of the intron) markers will be employed to most imperiled habitats in California, unravel the evolutionary relationship the study also has broader impacts. Two of heterophylly to habitat change and Eryngium taxa are on the Federal list of the biogeographical origin of vernal Endangered species: E. constancei and pool Eryngium. Vernal pool lineages E. aristulatum var. parishii (E. aris- and close relatives will be studied. The tulatum var. hooveri is not listed, but following questions will be addressed: is known only from two populations). Conservation efforts are currently How do vernal pool lineages arise © UC Regents hindered by widely acknowledged from terrestrial lineages? Does taxonomic difficulties and insufficient the process involve increasing Mike Park, a graduate student in knowledge of life history. Agencies such specialization from terrestrial to the Baldwin lab, has been awarded a as the US Fish & Wildlife Service and semi-aquatic habitats, and finally prestigious DDIG from the National California Department of Fish & Game into vernal pools? Science Foundation. Mike’s research could more effectively apply conserva- titled “Adaptation and historical Did heterophylly evolve in vernal tion policies with improved knowledge ecology in vernal pool Eryngium pools or in an intermediate (semi- of rare taxa. The experiments in this (Apiaceae)” is now underway. Below aquatic) habitat? study will also provide opportunities is an excerpt from his grant proposal for underrepresented minority students that provides an overview of the project. Does Cope’s “Law of the Unspe- from UC Berkeley to learn scientific cialized” apply? Does vernal pool Vernal pools are island-like research techniques otherwise not avail- specialization lead to an evolu- topographic depressions characterized able to undergraduates. by inundation during the wet winter tionary dead-end? Can ecological season and desiccation during dry generalists evolve from vernal Mike Park at Hill Slough Wildlife Area summer months. The strongly bimodal pool specialists? in the Suisun Delta, August 2007 Mediterranean climate of California has Changes in led to the formation of an extensive, the leaf mor- highly endemic vernal pool flora. phology of het- Though the diversity of vernal pool erophyllous taxa flora is well documented, little is known of Eryngium are about the processes that accompany the thought to be switch from strictly terrestrial to vernal triggered by en- pool habitats or whether vernal pool vironmental cues adaptation is irreversible. such as seasonal Heterophylly is known in all ver- changes in pho- nal pool Eryngium and varies season- toperiod or water ally. Winter leaves may be functionally level. The ob- adapted to live in water and are mor- served changes in phologically similar to those of many leaf morphology strictly aquatic plants. Summer leaves may result from possess expanded blades with increased heteroblasty, en- Photo by Abigail J. Moore

3 The Story of How UC/JEPS Anatomy course at Berkeley. tions), and a large neotropical mistletoe Gained a Collection of After Costa Rica, I very slowly ex- herbarium would have been a white ~12,000 Mistletoes panded my active systematic interest in elephant there. I am therefore greatly By Job Kuijt neotropical mistletoes. Slowly, because relieved to have that collection, includ- Retired Professor, University of I was also intrigued by the anatomy ing numerous types, safely looked after and ultrastructure of the haustoria of in the Berkeley herbaria. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada parasitic plants generally, a topic that Meanwhile, I am busying myself When I was a graduate student at I had explored anatomically for Arceu- in finishing a number of manuscripts Berkeley, I was fortunate to meet Ra- thobium in my Ph.D. thesis. Then, Scan- largely based on those specimens. fael Rodriguez from Costa Rica, who ning Electron Microscopes burst upon invited me to come to his country for the world, eventually sweeping me into Job Kuijt is considered the world a couple of weeks. I took him up on it pollen work for mistletoes. Somewhere expert on New World mistletoes. He has when I finished my Ph.D. (1958), and along the way I had a sabbatical year published about 150 scientific papers and it was one of the best things I have ever in Berkeley, where I wrote Biology of a general text on parasitic plants and has done. Costa Rica was a splendid place Parasitic Flowering Plants, providing discovered and described about 250 new to be introduced to the mistletoes of the a broad basis for further work. In later mistletoe species. New World, as it had elements from years I began to drift back to full-time both North America and South America, taxonomic and morphological work, plus a real elevational range, its upper tackling some of the smaller genera like reaches having species from the páramo Cladocolea, Oryctanthus, and Tristerix. (a high elevation neotropical ecosystem I dreaded the huge, difficult genusPho - located between the upper forest line, radendron, but picked away at its edges about 3000 m, and the permanent snow whenever I could. It was not until 2003 line, about 5000 m). that I was able to publish a monograph I eventually monographed the of that dreadful genus. I swore I would mistletoes of Costa Rica, and wrote never look at another Phoradendron my first generic monograph (Den- specimen again, but I have already drophthora). Gradually the realization broken that vow several times, as the dawned upon me that not a single materials I kept receiving from vari- neotropical mistletoe genus had been ous institutions often contained new monographed before, species. At the time of and I saw how much writing, for example, I work needed to be done; again have materials for the New World seemed 7 new species of Phora- to be a dark continent for dendron; heaven knows mistletoes. Contacts with how many more are hid- the New York Botanical ing in the neotropical Garden, the Smithson- canopies. Throughout Isotype of Cladocolea peruviensis Kuijt, ian, the Field Museum, the years, my mistletoe a specimen that came with the collec- and, especially, the Mis- herbarium naturally kept tion. Type specimens are now being souri Botanical Garden expanding. Canada has scanned at high resolution for our type came about easily — no significant tropical in- specimen project (see Vol. 19 No. 1, Peter Raven and I had volvement in systematic May 2008), the results of which can be been fellow students in Job Kuijt as a grad student 1957 botany (notwithstanding found at: http://plants.jstor.org/. Adriance Foster’s Plant a few notable excep-

(Curator’s Column, cont. from page 1.) researchers from throughout the world complex histories (e.g., involving hy- and other floristic information remain as in addressing systematic questions that bridization) will likely become tractable. up-to-date as possible. were out of reach only a decade ago. As The area I chose to focus on for the I just returned from Beijing, China, evolutionary analysis at the level of the conference was cryptic diversity and the where an international conference on entire genome becomes feasible, both importance of focusing effort at resolv- New Frontiers in Plant Systematics and methodologically and economically, ing fine-scale lineages that have been Evolution was held in early July. The problems in California plant evolution overlooked or are confusingly similar meeting was inspirational in show- and systematics that have resisted resolu- to one another in morphology but may casing the rapid rate of progress by tion because of recent diversification and (Continued on page 5) 4 (Sabbatical Visitors, cont. from page 1.) has a “proper“ poppy capsule with stig- known and discussed so far in the lite- matic rays arranged in a stigmatic disc rature was substantially expanded, and (see figure), whereasS. heterophylla has general patterns were investigated. a capsule with a distinct style — these During her visit to UC/JEPS, two annual species are sister to each Gudrun´s research was focused on the other and apparently split more than 10 phylogeny, systematics, and biogeo- million years ago. Interestingly, the same graphy of Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot differentiation in capsule morphology is family). Chenopodiaceae comprise c. also found in the Old World, for example 110 genera with about 1700 species (of when comparing Meconopsis cambrica which c. 550 are C4-species) and often with Papaver s.str. Considering the are dominant elements of arid to semi- phylogeny of Old World Papaveroideae, arid, saline, disturbed, and agricultural it is hypothesized that capsules with a habitats of temperate and subtropical style are plesiomorphic, and that capsules regions. The North American flora, and without a style and with a stigmatic disc especially California, make attractive originated several times independently study areas because of the high diver- in a polyphyletic Papaver. sity of Atriplex and a number of small, To study capsule development, rare genera such as Allenrolfea, Apha- Joachim grew P. californicum and S. nisma, Athrocnemum, Neokochia, and heterophylla. In so doing, he investiga- Nitrophila. ted when in their ontogeny the striking Gudrun’s molecular systematic differences in adult morphology arise. and phylogenetic work focused on He also compared capsule development P. californicum S. heterophylla the Chenopodioideae-Atripliceae and between P. californicum/S. heterophylla Nitrophila (Polycnemoideae) with a and M. cambrica/Papaver s.str. to in- split between the lineages from either special interest in the evolution of mor- vestigate whether the styles found in S. side of the Atlantic (or Pacific). Joachim phological traits and C4-photosynthesis. heterophylla and M. cambrica are struc- screened the literature for additional Elizabeth Zacharias, a former Baldwin turally homologous or not. Joachim also examples of this type of distribution. graduate student (now at Harvard Univ.) intends to hybridize the two species in Starting with a simple comparison of and David Ackerly (Dept. of Integrative order to gain access to the genetic basis genera in The Jepson Manual and Flora Biology, UC Berkeley) also joined of this morphological difference. Europaea, genera of potential interest the collaboration. Gudrun compiled Joachim’s work also investigated were identified. In a second step, lite- a comprehensive phylogeny of Che- the biogeography of P. californicum rature on the phylogeny of these genera nopodiaceae based on two molecular and S. heterophylla whose distribution was screened to see whether species markers and a data set of plant traits in western North America provides an or lineages from the Mediterranean- related to C4-photosynthesis in order to example of a Mediterranean-Southwest Southwest Asian area are most closely run phylogeny-based correlation analy- Asian/Californian disjunction. Whereas related to Californian species or lineages, ses and discover traits that might have eastern North American/East Asian dis- and whether these splitting events have played a major role in the evolution of junctions are well investigated and well been dated with a molecular clock C4-photosynthesis in Chenopodiaceae. understood, western Eurasian/western approach. The phylogenetic literature The following traits were studied: pho- North American disjunctions are not. will also help to identify suprageneric tosynthetic pathway, salinity tolerance, They may have orginated through a lineages with such distributional pat- occurrence in coastal habitats, succu- Beringian or a North Atlantic connection tern. Although rather incomplete taxon lence, leaf reduction, and growth form. between the two continents, or through sampling in many phylogenetic studies The collaborative work with Elizabeth long-distance dispersal. To some extent, designed for other purposes leaves many has resulted in a paper that will soon these alternative explanations can be di- uncertainties, the list of Mediterranean- be published in the American Journal stinguished by the geological age of the Southwest Asian/Californian disjuncts of Botany.

(Curator’s Column, cont. from page 4.) 15 years and no doubt much remains considered in conservation planning in be ecologically divergent and not neces- to be discovered. The urgency of such the face of rapid environmental change, sarily as closely related as they appear discovery comes in part from the need including climate change. We have come to be superficially. Such diversity has to delimit evolutionarily significant a long way in California floristics since been found in almost every group of plant lineages that are irreplaceable and publication of The Jepson Manual in Californian plants that have been studied may differ ecologically, so that they 1993, and still have a significant frontier in the Jepson Herbarium over the last can be recognized taxonomically and ahead! 5 Recent Books and Discoveries from Herbaruim Associates

Franciscan Manzanita Rediscovered competition versus herbivory. species can be identified from pictures. The Franciscan manzanita has You can even identify mosses without had a long history of attempts to save needing a hand lens, by matching it from destruction, starting with Alice “leaves” to the illustrations. For more Eastwood saving specimens from the in-depth study, this book works well in burning California Academy after the conjunction with the descriptions and 1906 quake, and Lester Rowntree try- keys to California Mosses by Norris and ing to save plants from the Laurel Hill Shevock in Madroño 51 (1&2), 2004. Cemetery before it was bulldozed in 1947. Currently, Wild Equity Institute submitted a petition to list the species Magnificent Chinese and American under the Endangered Species Act. Redwoods (English and Chinese Edition) The recently found plants have Momei Chen (Editor) ISBN been relocated to a site within the 7030238990. Available for $45 from Presidio. Amazon.com and Save the Redwoods League. This bilingual overview of all three redwood species, Metasequoia glypto- stroboides, Sequoia sempervirens, and Sequoiadendron giganteum, not only Label from above specimen: gives the latest scientific evidence on redwoods, but also tells stories of their CALIFORNIA 46016 discovery and preservation. Various Arctostaphylos franciscana Eastwood redwood locations are described along Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 32: 201, 1905 with their associated flora and fauna. TYPE LOCALITY SAN FRANCISCO New findings from Chen’s research Locality: Laurel Hill Cemetery in China and the United States are Serpentine rock outcrop included. Alt. Ca. 300 ft. March 8, 1946

Collected by Lewis S. Rose

The San Francisco Manzanita. Arctostaphylos franciscana, thought to survive only in cultivation, was redis- covered last year in the wild for the first time since 1942. Daniel Gluesenkamp of Audubon Canyon Ranch spotted it California Mosses by Bill and Nancy in a part of the Presidio where a new Malcolm, Jim Shevock, and Dan Nor- highway is planned. ris. Micro-Optics Press, Nelson, New Gluesenkamp is currently Director Zealand, 2009. 430 pp. $68 hardcover. of Habitat Restoration for Audubon ISBN 9582224-5-2. Available from Canyon Ranch. He earned his Ph.D. at California Native Plant Society. the University of California at Berkeley Described as “stunning” and “mag- with research that revealed how popu- ical,” as well as “enormously useful,” lations of native and alien thistles are this book is for the amateur plant enthu- shaped by plant competition, by insect siast as well as those who wish a more herbivory, and by effects of habitat thorough study of mosses. It contains productivity on the relative intensity of dramatic photomicrographs and the 6 2010 YEAR IN REVIEW ThisThis yearyear thethe Jepson Jepson workshops workshops were were held held in in many many wonderful many wonderful places in places California in California and beyond, and includingbeyond, Costaincluding Rica, Costa Hawaii, Rica, and Hawaii, Oregon. and Some Oregon. of the Some highlights of the included highlights (clockwise included from(clock- top) wisekeying from outtop) plants keying in out51 Families, plants in Spergularia51 Families, and Spergularia seals on San and Nicolas seals on Island, San Nicolas lunchtime, Island, lunchtime,climbing climbing on San on Nicolas, San Nicolas, and Kings and Kings Canyon Canyon..

PhotosPhotos courtesy courtesy of of Roxanne Roxanne Bittman, Bittman, John John Game, Game, AnnaAnna Larsen, Larsen, and and Abby Abby Moore Moore

7 Welcome Amy Kasameyer, Archivist Amy joined the University and Jepson Herbaria in April 2009 to work on the Cataloging the Hidden Archives of Western American Botany and Beyond project, funded by a Cataloging Hidden Collections Grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. Previously, she worked at Shields Library at UC Davis. Amy received her B.S. in biology from UC Davis and worked as a botanist with the California Natural Diversity Database for several years before getting her Master’s Degree in library and information science at San Jose State University. While she was in library school she interned at the USFWS library in Sacramento. She was happy to find a job that combines her botanical and archival expertise. She loves learning more about California’s botanists and enjoys helping researchers access these unique, primary source materials. When she is not working she enjoys hiking, bicycling, cooking, and eating. More About the Archives Our archives, one of the primary resources for the history of western American botany from the 1860’s on, include institu- tional records, such as visitor logs and correspondence, as well as personal papers of botanists associated with the Herbaria includ- ing Willis Jepson, William Setchell, Townsend and Katharine Brandegee, Lincoln Constance, and many others. The collection is rich in correspondence, field notes, and photographs. Materi- als cover California and beyond as botanists associated with the Herbaria traveled and corresponded internationally. The end result of this project will be a searchable online database containing finding aids for our archival collections, available online at: http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/archon We are using Archon, the open source archival manage- ment software developed by University of Illinois Archives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library, to create this database. Please note that this database is currently a work in progress, and only a portion of our holdings are represented in the catalog. Additional collections will be added as they are processed. Contact Amy to see if we have material that does not Brad and Sue Agnew look through original show up in the database. accounts written by John Gill Lemmon If you are interested in doing research at the University and photo by Andrew Doran Jepson Herbaria archives, we ask that you make an appointment due to limited space in our reading room and the need to retrieve In 2009 the University and Jepson Herbaria received some collections from storage. We are also happy to answer a Cataloging Hidden Collections Grant from the Council questions via email or phone: on Library and Information Resources for the project [email protected] Cataloging the Hidden Archives of Western American (510) 642-2465 Botany and Beyond. Readers of the Jepson Globe may be familiar with the Herbaria archives from Dr. Richard Beidleman’s articles describing the treasures he has uncovered through his many years of work as the Her- baria’s volunteer archivist. This project will build on the work done by Dr. Beidleman to rehouse and catalog our unprocessed archival collections. From Jepson’s Field book Vol. 32, entry on April 14, 1916. 8 Welcome Jeanne Marie Acceturo The Jepson Herbarium Public Programs Coordinator Projects & Resources The Jepson Flora Project The Jepson Herbarium The Jepson Manual & Jepson Desert Manual welcomes Jeanne Marie Online Interchange for California Floristics Acceturo as the new Public Online Horticultural Database Programs Coordinator. If you A Flora of California (electronic) count organizing neighborhood Educational Services & Resources talent shows and college Botanical Workshops & Courses orientation events, Jeanne Plant Identification 2,200,000+ Worldwide Plant Specimens Marie has been planning Botanical Library & Archives programs for her entire life. Her Publications & Research Projects professional public programs Constancea: UC publications in botany experience includes four years Director: Brent Mishler in the education department at Deep Green Plant Phylogenetics: Novel The Oakland Zoo, where she Analytical Methods for Scaling Data from handled live animals for school Genomics to Morphology Moorea Biocode Project (a complete inventory classes, taught nature crafts to of an island ecosystem) preschoolers, and developed the Systematics and ecology of Syntrichia popular sleepover program. In Curator: Bruce G. Baldwin 2005, Jeanne Marie left the Zoo Systematics and Evolution of Calif. tarweeds to join the public programs team at the Exploratorium. While there, she organized and relatives (tribe Madieae, Compositae) a wide variety of art and science events including a Funny Noise Contest, a Puzzle Unravelling the dynamics of mating-system Party, and the annual Rubik’s Cube Competition. evolution in tribe Collinsieae Curator of Ecology: David Ackerly Jeanne Marie has also catered concerts, written about rock music, and taught Niche conservatism, functional trait evo- literacy workshops. Most recently, she delved into the world of museum exhibit lution, and the diversification of the Cali- design, spending almost three years as a Senior Exhibit Developer with West fornia vernal pool flora Office Exhibition Design in Oakland. Lucky for us, though, she decided that she Ecological Flora of California likes programs better than exhibits. “I am so excited to have a job that allows me Evolution and origin of the California flora to learn so much and go to so many amazing places!” she said. Curator of Monocots: Chelsea D.Specht A California almost-native, Jeanne Marie grew up in San Jose and attended Evolution and biogeography of Calif. alliums Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. After graduating with a very useful degree in English Systematics and evolution of Heliconia Floral developmental evolution in the tropical Literature, she returned to the Bay Area, spending 10 years in San Francisco’s gingers (Zingiberales) Mission District before moving to Berkeley. When she isn’t making charts or Curator of W. N. Am. 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Consortium of North American (BAEDN, continued from page 1.) Lichen Herbaria (CNALH) of invasive plants are prioritized so that dangerous outbreaks can be removed The CNALH Consortium was Check it out! before they spread and cause harm. created to serve as a gateway to data http://symbiota.org/nalichens/ This approach aims to minimize the resources of interest to the taxonomic environmental and economic damage and environmental research community caused by invaders and dramatically in North America. Through a common reduce the resources required to control web interface, they offer tools to locate, large, established invasive plant popu- access, and work with a variety of lations. This approach also educates lichen data, including keys to species, citizens by involving them in Early an image library, and species lists for Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) particular geographic regions. activities. The CNALH is more than just a What you can do. There are several web site — it is a suite of data access ways to participate. First, you can detect technologies and a distributed network and report unusual or harmful invasive of universities, botanical gardens, mu- plants; please go to http://BAEDN. seums, and agencies that provide taxo- org and use the Google maps driven nomic and environmental information. database. Second, please subscribe to Initially created to integrate databases the Partners email list so you can par- between Arizona State University and ticipate in efforts to build and refine this the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden, important system. the consortium is growing to extend Directors: Daniel Gluesenkamp and Cladonia carneola its network to other partners within Andrea Williams; Early Detection Co- Photo by Stephen Sharnoff North America (12 collections are now ordinator: Aviva Rossi; Rapid Response included). Coordinator: Mike Perlmutter.

10 New Seminar Room for Botany Lunches and Meetings Our new Seminar Room in 1002 Valley Life Sciences Building will be used for our Botany Lunch series this fall. The room is right off the hallway near the north entrance of the ground floor, so people no longer have to go through the stacks of the herbaruim. There is more space to accomodate the crowds we have been getting for our Botany Lunch and other events. Fall Semester 2010 Botany Lunch Schedule Botany Lunch is held Fridays at 12:10 pm. Sep 10 Dena Vallano (Postdoctoral Scholar, Environmental Studies Department UC Santa Cruz) Herbaria record of increasing nitrogen pollution inputs to serpentine grasslands. Sep 17 Trevor Hodkinson (Senior Lecturer in Botany, Trinity College Dublin) Phylogenetics and systematics of the biomass and bioenergy crop Miscanthus. Sep 2 Jim Shevock (Research Associate, University and Jepson Herbaria) Botany Explorations in the Gulf of Guinea Islands. Oct 1 John Miller (Volunteer, University & Jepson Herbaria) “Paleozoic Origin of Angiosperms: Potential Molecular Coevolution with Insects. Oct 8 Tom Madsen (Grad Student, Mishler Lab) Exploring for myco-heterotrophic plants in the western U.S. Oct 15 Danica Harbaugh (President and CEO, AuthenTechnologies LLC; Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley) The Bad, the Good, and the Only: A Revealing Look at Medicinal Herb Authentication Methods from the Dark Ages to DNA. Oct 22 Amy Kasamayer, (Archivist, University & Jepson Herbaria) Cataloging the Hidden Archives of University and Jepson Herbaria. Oct 29 Mike Park (Grad.Student, Baldwin Lab) Studies in Collinsia and Eryngium. Nov 5 Nathalie Nagalingum (Postdoc, Marshall lab) Understanding the evolution of heterosporous ferns, with special reference to the importance of herbarium collections. Nov 12 Christopher Davidson, Flora of the World: We may not finish, but it’s lots of fun trying. Nov. 19 Lech Naumovich (Conservation Analyst, California Native Plant Society, East Bay Chapter) The East Bay Flora Project. Nov 26 No Botany Lunch Dec 3 Cindy Looy (Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley) Pleuromeia sternbergii - the success story of an Early Triassic lycopod. Dec 10 Elizabeth Brusati, (Science Program Manager, California Invasive Plant Council). Weeds on the move: Predict- ing the spread of invasive plants in California. If you are interested in giving a seminar for the Spring 2011 season, contact Andrew Doran at 643-4344 or [email protected]. Curatorial Volunteers Needed at the University and Jepson Herbaria! Attend a volunteer Saturday or call to set up an individual appointment: (510) 642-2465. Are you interested in: a) learning more about the California flora; b) gaining first-hand experience with herbarium techniques; c) providing much-needed assistance with the specimens that are the raw data on which our knowledge of the California flora is based; d) socializing with fellow native plant enthusiasts; e) all of the above? Then have we got a deal for you! One Saturday of each month is a Group Volunteer Day in the Herbaria at the University of California at Berkeley, in which we hope to welcome back participants from previous years and greet a diversity of new faces. What better way to spend those rainy winter weekends! Group Volunteer Saturday begins at 10 am and finishes up by 4 pm (participants need not stay the full time). To be added to the Group Volunteer reminder list, please call Ana Penny (510) 642-2465. We also welcome individual volunteers who can come in during our regular hours (M-F 8-5). We will try to match your unique interests, abilities and schedule to one of the numerous curatorial projects that have been gathering dust. For more information about individual volunteer opportunities, call (510) 642-2465. Volunteer Saturdays for 2010-2011 September 18, December 11 March 12 October 16, January 22 April 16 (Cal Day) November 20, February 12 May 14 11 Friends of the Jepson Herbarium Nonprofit Organization The Jepson Globe, Vol. 20 No. 3 1001 Valley Life Sciences Building #2465 U.S. Postage PAID University of California, Berkeley University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-2465

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Jepson Herbarium Public Programs We’re still hard at work planning our 2011 workshop season, and it’s shaping up to be a great one! The following workshops are confirmed, with more on the way: Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Upcoming Name Changes in the Calif. Flora Asteraceae 50 Families in the Field 51 Families in the Field A Crash Course in Flowering Plant Families Lichens and Biological Soil Crusts of the eastern Mojave Flora of San Diego County 50 — or at least 25 — Families in the Field in Monterey County, Asilomar Rare Flora of the Santa Cruz Sandhills Mimulus Rare Flora of the Panamint Mountains, Death Valley National Park

The full 2011 schedule will be available in late fall. Stay tuned for updates!

For more information, contact Jeanne Marie Acceturo (510) 643-7008, [email protected] or visit our Web site: http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/jepwkshp.html

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