symposium. The amount of the award, up to $100.00, Southern California Botanists NON-PROFIT ORG. 1500 North College Avenue U.S. POSTAGE will vary based on the distance traveled. Applications Claremont, CA 91711-3157 PAID will be available on the Southern California Botanists Claremont, CA website and grants will be prioritized based on student Address Service Requested PERMIT NO. 147 need. Additionally, student poster presentations qualify for free symposium registration. Visit
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Volume 27 Number 5 & 6 September-December 2018 Call for Poster Abstracts
44nd Annual Southern California The SCB symposium poster session will be held Botanists Symposium concurrently with the Mixer at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in the East Classroom between 5:30
and 6:30pm. Posters should be no larger than 36" Botany in the Hot Seat: horizontally and 48" vertically. Poster Abstracts are Vegetation, Fire and Climate Change due by September 14, 2018, and must be submitted Saturday, November 3, 2018 electronically to [email protected]. The abstract is
limited to 250 words and should be a single paragraph 8am-5pm Pomona College-Seaver Auditorium describing the poster. Submitters will be notified if
Poster Session, Mixer and Banquet at Rancho their poster has been accepted by September 21, 2018. Please do not submit abstracts for posters that Santa Ana Botanic Garden afterwards have been previously displayed at a SCB See Included Program and Registration Form symposium. A free 1-year SCB membership will be awarded to the student with the best poster.
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE SCB Grant Opportunities
Leaflets of the ___Individual (family) $25.00 With the recent wildfires throughout the state and the Southern California Botanists ___Organization $35.00 on-going drought searing southern California, now SCB is offering four grant opportunities in 2018. The
(International Orders please add $10.00) Editor: Thomas Huggins & Nick Jensen seems like a great time to host a symposium about the Annual SCB Grant, the Susan Hobbs Grant, the Alan Romspert Grant in Desert Botany, and the SCB Please circle one: New Member or Renewal effects of drought and fires on California’s vegetation. Conservation Grant. Proposals must be turned in by Name______c/o Thomas Huggins We are working on putting together an exceptional list November 26th, 2018. Maximum funding is one Address______UCLA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of speakers for the 44th annual SCB 621 Charles E. Young Drive South symposium Botany in the Hot Seat: Vegetation, Fire, thousand dollars ($1,000) per person per year. See Address______Box 951606 and Climate Change. We will host presentations about www.socalbot.org for grant instructions. City______State_____Zip______Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606 the effects of fire and climate change on vegetation in Phone (optional) (___)______the Mojave Desert, southern California walnut SCB Annual Grant: a grant to support member Email address:______For membership information, please use the Claremont address woodlands, coastal sage scrub, chaparral and pine research in field botany (e.g. floristics, taxonomy and to the left. Also, please visit our website at www.socalbot.org. ecology). Preference will be given to research on In addition, I want to give $______to help support SCB. forests.
This newsletter is copyrighted © 2018 by Southern California Southern California native species. I hope that all of you reading this will plan to attend Make checks payable to Southern California Botanists and mail to: Botanists, Inc. All rights reserved. Southern California Botanists the symposium. It’s a great event that brings together Susan Hobbs Grant for Field Research: a grant Membership many of the best and brightest botanists in Southern 1500 North College Ave Please circulate or recycle Leaflets. specifically for field research. This award is supported Claremont CA 91711-3157 California. by funds raised in memory of Susan Hobbs, long-time -Justin Wood, SCB President 2018 member of SCB.
Alan Romspert Grant in Desert Botany: a grant Additional Symposium Info specifically for desert botanical research. This award is supported by funds raised in memory of Alan Student Travel Grants Romspert, long-time board member and contributor to Up to ten travel grants will be awarded to students in SCB.
need of financial assistance to attend the 2018
SCB Conservation Grant: a grant funded through a We didn’t see it. We did however, find Coulter’s saltbush been poached recently as popularity for the plant contribution by a SCB board member, to support projects (Atriplex coulteri), beach red sand verbena (Abronia grows in east Asian online markets. Two counts of Plant Puzzler and research that contribute to the conservation of rare maritima), California box thorne (Lycium californicum) poaching have been successfully convicted by plants in southern California. and woolly sea-blite (Suaeda taxifolia), cliff spurge California Department of Fish and Wildlife law (Euphorbia misera), and one very tiny many-stemmed enforcement in Mendocino County and Big Sur. dudleya (Dudleya multicaulis). We also saw the Locally Coastal southern California has over 23 rare Dudleya Other Funding Opportunities Rare plant species, beach saltbush (Atriplex leucophylla) taxa that could potentially become a target, so please and the Orange County Turkish-rugging (Chorizanthe keep a watchful eye out when you're out exploring our Mary DeDecker Botanical Grant staticoides subsp. chrysacantha). None of these rare botanical treasures. The Bristlecone Chapter of the CNPS is pleased to request plants were in large numbers (except the shrubs) and some -Katie Gallagher applications for the Mary DeDecker Botanical Grant that individuals quite diminutive but participants went away promotes research and projects which increase satisfied. Upcoming Events, Workshops understanding and appreciation of the flora of the Eastern Overall, wildflowers were largely absent, which was not a Sierra region. The program will award grants of up to great surprise considering how dry conditions were. and Symposia
$1000 each. Anyone may apply, but we are especially Regardless, the ocean, beach, and ragged coastal bluffs of interested in helping graduate and undergraduate college Crystal Cove State Park always present a delightful State of the Los Angeles Watershed students as well as elementary, middle, and high school backdrop to any field trip. I expect next year will be more Symposium students. The application form is available at the favorable and I hope to make the field trip an annual SCB September 27, 8 am – 6:30 pm, Autry Museum of the Bristlecone Chapter website: www.bristleconecnps.org. tradition. American West, Los Angeles. Based on 10 years of
-Fred Roberts Puzzle by N. Jensen Torrey Botanical Society Graduate Student monitoring, the Council for Watershed Health will report on the condition of the LA River, including Research Fellowship water quality, habitat assessment, and aquatic health. The Torrey Botanical Society supports graduate and News and Notes Panel discussions will focus on identifying gaps in undergraduate fieldwork with six annual rewards. research, data, and regional efforts. For more Clues Applications for the 2019 competition will be accepted Endangered Bluecurls Makes a Comeback! information and registration please visit: beginning October 15, 2018. Details are available at the 1. Number of corolla lobes On June 1, 2018 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service www.watershedhealth.org. society’s website: www.torreybotanical.org. 2. Ovary position announced that Trichostema austromontanum subsp. compactum (Hidden Lake bluecurls) would be removed California Invasive Plant Council Symposium 3. Inflorescence bract
from the endangered species list because of successful 4. Homologous to calyx Field Trip Reports recovery efforts. This small plant with blue flowers is November 7-10. Monterey. Join fellow land managers, 5. Lettuce genus known from only one location in the world, a seasonal lake researchers, and conservationists to catch up on the 6. Receptacular bract Crystal Cove in the San Jacinto Mountains. Naomi Fraga, SCB latest findings in invasive plant biology and 7. Liqueur made with artichokes management. This year’s theme “BioDiversity: Despite some challenges organizing the field trip, nine of Secretary, and Director of Plant Conservation at Rancho 8. Type of fruit Expanding Our Vision.” The symposium will feature us met at the Trader Joes across from Crystal Cove State Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, California, says 9. Type of inflorescence th the latest in invasive plant biology and management, Park on the morning of May 12 . It was a cool and “Hidden Lake bluecurls is an example of a true with talks, posters, trainings, discussion groups, and Send the puzzle solution to [email protected] overcast morning. Ironically, it had even rained that conservation success story. This species benefits from th field trips on projects addressing invasive plants before November 20 . The winner will be selected at morning and more then a few participants wondered if the conservation decisions and land management actions that from riparian, grassland, mountain, coastal, and random from the pool of correct answers, and will trip might be canceled. are informed by the best available scientific research. receive their pick of cool SCB merchandise at the Population surveys, monitoring and seed banking efforts aquatic/wetland habitats. For more information and I had conducted rare plant surveys along the ocean bluffs annual Symposium! Last puzzle solution: POACEAE! conducted in partnership with California State Parks will registration visit: www.cal-ipc.org at Crystal Cove State Park in the spring of 2017. The Congratulations puzzle winner Sarah DeGroot – see continue to ensure that future generations will know and bluffs between El Moro Beach and Pelican Point present you at the merch table, Sarah! appreciate this little gem of a California native plant.” some of the most diverse rare plant sites in Orange Call for Board Nominations
County. On one small bluff ridge overlooking the beach Prior to being listed as threatened in 1998, this species was north of the Historical District, I had seven (eight counting impacted by recreational uses including hiking, swimming Interested in serving on the Board of Directors for Information to be included in the next issue of locally rare) species of rare plants. Some of the mesas and horseback riding. Since that time, the Service worked Southern California Botanists? The Board meets six LEAFLETS (Vol. 25, No. 1) should be sent to with the Mount San Jacinto State Park to reduce impacts. were decked out in yellows and magentas with times a year to plan fieldtrips, allocate funds, plan the the editor by November 20th, 2018. Please wildflowers. Additionally, RSABG conducted research on this species yearly symposium, and evaluate grant proposals. to increase understanding of its life history such as email material to [email protected], or mail to: It was quite a bit drier this spring. Most of the shrubs were Meetings are held at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Thomas Huggins, leafless and hardly an annual was anywhere to be seen. demography, germination requirements and seed bank Garden in Claremont, CA, and run approximately 90 viability. minutes, from 7:30-9:00pm on Wednesdays. Meeting UCLA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Still, we had an enthusiastic group, including three wildlife 621 Charles E. Young Drive South agency staff hoping to catch a glimpse of the elusive can also be attended remotely via Skype. Contact the Online Market Spurs Dudleya Poaching co-editor of Leaflets at [email protected] by Box 951606 Davidson’s saltbush (Atriplex davidsonii). I had relocated th Davidson’s saltbush last spring along these bluffs after the Dudleya farinosa, a common succulent that grows on the November 20 if you are interested in serving. Los Angeles, CA 90095-160 plant had gone missing from Orange County for 85-years. coast of northern California and the central coast, have