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

VOLUME 26 NUMBER 1, Spring 2016

Curator’s Column: Museomics The Jepson Manual: Vascular Reveals Secrets of the Dead Plants of California, Second By Bruce G. Baldwin Edition: Supplement III Over the last decade, herbaria By Bruce G. Baldwin have received well-deserved public- The latest set of revisions to The Jep- ity as treasure troves of undiscovered son Manual, second edition (TJM2) and biodiversity, with the recognition that the Jepson eFlora was released online most “new” species named in the last in December 2015. The rapid pace of half-century have long resided in col- discovery and description of vascular lections prior to their detection and plant taxa that are new-to-science for original description. The prospect also California and the rarity and endanger- has emerged for unlocking the secrets of ment of most of those new taxa have plants and other organisms that no lon- warranted prioritization of revisions ger share our planet as living organisms that incorporate such diversity — and and, sadly, reside only in collections. Map of California, split apart to show newly introduced, putatively aggressive Technological advances that now al- the Regions of the Jepson eFlora. invasives — so that detection of such low for DNA sequencing on a genomic Source: Jepson Flora Project. plants in the field and in collections scale also are well suited for studying Regional dichotomous keys now is not impeded. The continuing taxo- old, highly degraded specimens, as re- nomic reorganization of genera and, to cent reconstruction of the Neanderthal available for the Jepson eFlora some extent, families in order to reflect genome has shown. By David Baxter and Niels Klazenga improved understanding of relation- An example of how next-gener- The Jepson Flora Project has col- ships more precisely is also important ation DNA sequencing of herbarium laborated with Niels Klazenga, Royal to capture in the Jepson eFlora and specimens can contribute to studying Botanic Gardens Victoria to integrate TJM2 Supplements. In situations when extinct plants was published in January the Jepson eFlora dichotomous keys limited time and resources require a (Zedane et al. 2016. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. into the Atlas of Living Australia’s di- choice between pursuing such revisions 117: 44–57). That study, which I enjoyed chotomous key platform KeyBase. Now, versus those that involve incorporation participating in, focused on a plant that eFlora users are able to select the region in floristic resources of new minimum- has the sad distinction of being the only in which they found a plant, and get a rank rarities or invasives, then priority genus to become extinct historically simplified version of theeFlora key for must go to the latter, in the interests of in the California Floristic Province identifying plants in that region. The (Continued on page 4) (CA-FP): Hesperelaea (Oleaceae). new interface is now available at ucjeps. Hesperelaea was an endemic tree on berkeley.edu/eflora/filter_keys.html. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Guadalupe Island, at the southwest John Muir Herbarium (JOMU) corner of the CA-FP, ~150 miles west of California’s beta diversity Unexpected Fossil Flora the Baja California Peninsula. Edward California is a famous “biodiversity New Faces in the Herbaria Palmer made the first and only collec- hotspot,” boasting over 6,500 native Doctoral Diss. Improvement Grants tion of Hesperelaea in 1875 and noted plant taxa. Biodiversity researchers New Edition, Monterey Co. Flora that feral goats had killed all but a few refer to the total number of species in Checklist from Crooked Creek Station individuals of that species, which was an area as “alpha diversity.” California Summary of Changes in Revision 3 (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 4) Unveiling John Muir’s Herbarium (JOMU) By Andrew S. Doran, Assistant Director for Collections John Muir was one of America’s ter, Jean Hanna Clark, inherited Muir’s most famous environmentalists/con- historic herbarium collection, bundled servationists, and herbaria in the with Muir’s plant press. The specimens United States have scatterings of his were first lent to the National Park Ser- botanical specimens (73 specimens vice by Mrs. Clark in the late 1960s and are cataloged in the Consortium of later donated to the park, along with the California Herbaria). Muir’s specimens plant press, by her children in the 1980s. were highlighted in the 2008 publica- It is clear from his numerous books tion Nature’s Beloved Son, John Muir’s that although his focus was conservation Botanical Legacy by Bonnie Geisel, but in a broad sense, his love and knowledge few people are aware that the bulk of his of plants was something he took most specimens and his personal herbarium to heart. His notes and descriptions of (over 1,000 specimens) are part of the them show that botany was one disci- museum collection of the John Muir pline he took very seriously (see Fig. 1) National Historic Site, a unit of the Na- and he referred to himself as a botanist tional Park Service located in Martinez, on several occasions. California. Although he traveled widely, In a new project, the University Fig 2. John Muir illustration by Peter Van it is fitting that his specimens are now and Jepson Herbaria are working in Valkenburgh, who also sketched other preserved and cared for as part Muir’s partnership with the John Muir National notable naturalists in the early 20th Cen- tury, including Willis Linn Jepson. Muir’s house where he raised a family with his Historic Site through a Cooperative specimens have been used in a variety wife Louie Strentzel and lived the last Ecosystem Study Unit (CESU) agree- of projects. For example, the Curator of 24 years of his life. Muir’s granddaugh- ment funded by the National Park Ser- the Jepson Herbarium, Bruce Baldwin, vice to document and conserve Muir’s recently needed to sample tissue from a historic herbarium using professional Muir specimen for genetic analysis, the archival preservation and digitization type of one of the plant species named for techniques developed and employed Muir, Carlquistia muirii (Muir’s tarplant), on our own collections for many years, to determine whether that reportedly Yo- including connecting his specimens semite specimen is referable to any of the with his journals, notes, and archives. geographically distinct, evolutionary lin- Since the late 1970s, various pres- eages resolved within that species, which ervation methods were used to curate is otherwise unknown north of the Kings his specimens and botanical notes but River drainage in the Sierra Nevada. they did not conform to modern archival techniques and the specimens are in and mounted on archival paper. The need of further conservation, curation, second phase will be to print barcodes and digitization to make them more (JOMU catalog numbers) that will be widely available. linked to the original National Park Additionally, recataloging is also ‘Group’ catalog numbers and data that necessary to achieve better physical are known about the specimen, includ- Fig 1. Some notes from the Muir her- and intellectual curation of individual ing locality, date, and taxon name. The barium include his descriptions of the specimens because the collection was third phase will be to produce high plants he collected, which ultimately will originally lump cataloged from two resolution images of the specimens with be tied to his specimens. Data about the main expeditions: Muir’s travels to their newly printed labels. These images specimens is dispersed across numerous Canada and Indiana (1864–1867) and will be linked to the catalog records and institutions that received his archives his world tour to Australia, New Zea- put online and made searchable, thus over the years as the house had passed land, China, Japan, Hawaii, the western making this overlooked herbarium of out of family ownership by 1921 and was United States, Florida, Scotland, and the famous naturalist available for the in private hands until the 1960s. Since South America (1903–1904). first time. then, ancestors have donated furniture, To begin the project, the collection The fourth phase will be identify- archives, and notes. Courtesy of the Na- has been assigned the standardized In- ing related specimen data in Muir’s tional Park Service, John Muir National dex Herbariorum designation ‘JOMU.’ journals. Since 1970, the Holt-Atherton Historic Site, JOMU 3561, B-2. Next, the specimens will be curated (Continued on page 3) 2 (JOMU, continued from page 2) Special Collections at the University of the Pacific (UOP) has been the repository for the John Muir Papers and over a dozen Muir related collections, including Muir’s journals from 1867–1913. The UOP collection will be critical in helping to piece together specimen data. Additional information will come from archives at other institutions, including Harvard, where botanist Asa Gray received some of Muir’s specimens.

Fig 3. John Muir’s house in Martinez, CA. Muir (pictured Fig 4. The Muir house in 2015 with the same, more mature palms. with his family) married Louie Strenzel in 1880, moved The house is open to the public 7 days a week from 10 AM to 5 PM. into the house in 1890 and lived there untill his death in Hopefully, in the future, there will be an exhibit on Muir’s botanical 1914 with already established specimens of Washingto- expeditions. The property also has a number of historic structures nia filifera at the front entrance. Image courtesy of the including the Martinez Adobe, built in 1849 by the family for whom National Park Service, John Muir National Historic Site, the town of Martinez was named. Photo by Andrew Doran. JOMU 1732. (Curator’s column, continued from page 1) named for him, H. palmeri. Removal revealed that Hesperelaea was most bona fide paleo-endemic of Guadalupe of the goats about 10 years ago led to closely related to an endemic Ecuador- Island. In the absence of known fos- resurgence of the vegetation, rediscov- ian genus, Priogymnanthus, with two sils, the ancestral distribution of the ery of plants long thought to be extinct species, and a genus familiar to many Hesperelaea lineage remains unknown, or extirpated, and even discovery of California botanists, Forestiera, which but it probably occurred on the North putatively native species not previously includes our desert olive, F. pubescens. American mainland prior to dispersal documented there. Prospects for redis- Although desert olive occurs in the to Guadalupe Island and subsequently covering Hesperelaea appear bleak, CA-FP, it is evidently no more closely went extinct everywhere except on the however, based on its conspicuous habit related to Hesperelaea than other spe- island, where it evidently thrived until and long apparent absence. cies of Forestiera, which occurs widely goats were released there in the 1800s. Relationships of Hesperelaea were from the neotropics to temperate North We now understand that the Gua- an unsolved mystery prior to the study America. In other words, divergence dalupe Island vascular flora, with by Zedane et al. The morphology of of Hesperelaea from its closest liv- >20% endemism, not only includes an Hesperelaea is somewhat anomalous in ing relatives appears to have preceded unusual example of adaptive radiation the olive family, with truly free rather diversification of Forestiera. Rigorous in the California Islands, in Deinandra than fused petals, for example. A short estimation of the timing of that (Early (Compositae), but also contained a relict DNA sequence obtained in an earlier Miocene) divergence event based on genus on par with the island ironwood, investigation by others succeeded in the molecular phylogeny indicated Lyonothamnus, of the Channel Islands. placing the genus in the subtribe that the Hesperelaea lineage is much By deepening our understanding of the Oleinae but the vast diversity of that older than the oldest age estimates for natural history of Guadalupe Island, subtribe and lack of resolution within Guadalupe Island (7 ± 2 million years), this new knowledge about one of its it precluded evolutionary or biogeo- from potassium-argon dating. Based extinct botanical gems reinforces the graphic understanding about the origin on those findings, Hesperelaea cer- importance of efforts to save what is of Hesperelaea. tainly warrants continued treatment as left of its unique biota. Results of the museomics study a monotypic genus and appears to be a 3 (KeyBase, continued from page 1) ra into regional checklists, KeyBase (Supplement Revision, continued from page 1) plants have high alpha diversity but takes advantage of California’s beta native plant and ecosystem preserva- also have high “beta diversity” mean- diversity by filtering the dichotomous tion. Such considerations are reflected ing that, within California, the plant keys based on the checklist. Thus, by in the groups chosen for revision in the diversity varies a lot from place to selecting the “SnFrB” option on Key- latest set. We thank our loyal TJM2 and place. The flora of the Sierra Nevada is Base, you’ve turned a key to almost eFlora authors for their help in ensur- very different from the flora of the San 8,000 taxa into a much simpler “Plants ing that those revisions are now freely Francisco Bay Area, which is again of the San Francisco Bay Area” key to available online. different from the flora of the Sonoran only 2,111 taxa. See page 11 for a summary of changes Desert, and so on. To continue with the Arctostaphy- made in Revision 3 of the Jepson The Jepson eFlora divides Califor- los example, let’s say someone finds an eFlora. nia into 35 ecologically distinct “bio- A. montaraensis in SnFrB but does not regions” for the purpose of indicating know what kind of Arctostaphylos it is. where plant taxa grow (cover image). The full key to Arctostaphylos in the For each terminal taxon, the eFlora eFlora contains 95 taxa, but the filtered lists the bioregions in which the plant SnFrB key only contains 22 taxa and grows. For example, Arctostaphylos is much easier to manage. In the end, montaraensis (Montara manzanita) whether you already know the genus only grows in the Central Coast (CCo) of the plant in question or have no idea and San Francisco Bay Area (SnFrB) what it is and need to start from the top, subregions. With all taxa taken into as long as you know what region the account, each region has its own unique plant came from you can use KeyBase © kevinhintsa, Creative Commons subset of the state’s flora. to narrow the choices. Eriastrum ertterae known only from the KeyBase Opportunities for improvement Lime Ridge area, east of the San Fran- Normally, to identify a plant found The taxon ranges described in cisco Bay. Described in 2013 by David Gowen, a volunteer at the University in the San Francisco Bay Area, one the Jepson eFlora are asserted by the and Jepson Herbaria, and named for would have to use the full dichotomous taxonomic expert who is the author of Dr. Barbara Ertter, Curator of Western those taxon treatments. As we have key of the eFlora. That is a key to al- North American Flora. most 8,000 terminal taxa, when only discovered from comparing maps 2,111 of those plant taxa are known to of plant specimen records from the grow in SnFrB. Thus, many of the key Consortium of California Herbaria to leads are irrelevant to plants from that eFlora authored ranges in the Yellow location. Flag project (see Volume 23, No. 2 for By compiling all the bioregional more information), there are still many distribution information from the eFlo- plant populations that occur outside the Cal Day ranges stated in the eFlora. This limitation to the eFlora regional April 16, 2016 keys is also a great opportunity. 9 am to 4 pm Since the publication of The Jep- son Manual, second edition, in University & Jepson Herbaria 2012, the Jepson Flora Project Behind-the-Scenes Tours! team has updated hundreds of range statements in the Jepson Special Displays! eFlora as part of the Yellow Flag project, based mainly on input from the eFlora user community. Make your own If you believe you’ve found a plant herbarium specimen! in a region not represented in the eFlora or in KeyBase, please Ask a botanist your question! Arctostaphylos montaraensis, a manzanita en- contact Staci Markos (smarkos@ demic to two mountains on the central coast berkeley.edu). of California. Photo by Neal Kramer.

4 An Unexpected Fossil Flora the find and thrilled with the proposal By Barbara Ertter, Curator of to develop interpretative displays and Western North American Flora programs capitalizing on the fossil While exploring off the beaten path flora and the window it provides to the in Ponderosa State Park, McCall, in one distant past. The McCall Star-News of the most popular summer recreation newspaper even ran a front-page article areas in Idaho, I had a big surprise when on the discovery, carefully keeping the I stopped to answer my phone. Glancing exact locality obscure at the request of down, I realized I was standing on top both scientists and park staff. of a previously unknown Miocene fos- Most of the fossils accumulated sil flora, estimated at 16 million years over the subsequent two field seasons old. The broad-leaf fossil plants were have yet to be identified. Those fossils clearly different from the conifer for- that have been identified indicate that Hickory and other leaves on particularly est that currently dominated the area, a flora very different from the current rich fossil-bearing slab. Photo by Barbara Ertter. consisting of pines, Douglas-fir, true mixed conifer forest existed 16 million firs, larch, and spruce. years ago. Most are genera that would fallen leaves with layers of ash and de- My next step was to contact Diane be well-known to anyone familiar with bris. Some strata at the fossil site are full Erwin, paleobotanist at the University deciduous forests in eastern North of charred wood, possible testimony and Jepson Herbaria’s counterpart fossil America: elm, oak, hickory, sycamore, to fires triggered by the same volcanic collection, the UC Museum of Pale- and maple, among others. Modern-day eruptions. Lava flows then covered the ontology (UCMP). Diane referred me counterparts of others are now restrict- area in several hundred feet of basalt, to Patrick Fields as the current expert ed to other parts of the world, notably entombing the site and protecting the on Miocene floras of southwestern sequoia (California), gingko (China), fossil-bearing sediments. Millions of Idaho and adjacent Oregon. Patrick and katsura (Japan). All of these gen- years later, Pleistocene glaciers carved had done his master’s work at UCMP era were once much more widespread the edges of the basalt deposits, expos- before going on for a PhD at Michigan throughout the northern hemisphere, ing the sediments and the record of a State University, followed by a career before present-day mountain ranges very different forest. at Olivet College. Fortuitously, both rose and disrupted rain patterns. Fossils from the site, dubbed the Patrick and I held research associate Although Miocene floras contain- Ponderosa Flora by Patrick Fields, are appointments at the Orma J. Smith ing these and other genera are well- being curated at the Orma J. Smith Natural History Museum of The Col- represented throughout western North Museum of Natural History at The lege of Idaho (my alma mater), where America, as affirmed by the extensive College of Idaho, Caldwell; a set of Patrick generally spent a month each holdings of UCMP, the geology of the specimens will eventually also find a summer to continue his work on local McCall area made it a very unlikely home at Berkeley, in the Museum of fossil floras. fossil locality. Neither the dominant Paleontology. The following summer, Patrick granite of the Idaho Batholith nor the gave me and several other colleagues a occasional outcrops of Columbia River crash course in fossil collecting at the Basalts are fossil-bearing, and Pleis- site. The team also met with the super- tocene glaciers would have churned visor and staff of Ponderosa State Park, up any exposed sedimentary deposits who were understandably excited about from earlier epochs. The fossil-bear- ing site that I stumbled across was evidently a rare exception, where a sediment-rich drainage had been sandwiched between the granite bedrock and volcanic effluvia. Volcanic activity may have even helped create the fossil-bear- View east across Payette Lake to Ponderosa State Park on ing strata, by damming Large sycamore leaf and redwood foliage. basalt-tipped peninsula. Photo by Barbara Ertter. streams and covering Photo by Barbara Ertter. 5 The Herbaria Welcome New Faces! Dr. Cathy Rushworth joined tion at Harvard University. Following the University and Jepson Herbaria as these ~5 years of work experience, the Louise Kellogg Postdoctoral Fellow Cathy joined the Mitchell-Olds lab at this past September, after completing Duke, where her dissertation focused on her PhD at Duke University with Tom the maintenance of sexual and asexual Mitchell-Olds. A native of the Washing- reproduction in natural populations ton D.C. area, Cathy first discovered a of the mustard Boechera retrofracta. love of biology around the age of six, Cathy is truly excited about the evolu- when she was alternately amazed by the tionary consequences of reproductive toxicity of begonias and distressed by variation at both the genomic and eco- the particular cultivation requirements logical scale. of lycopods. While at Berkeley, Cathy hopes to After an undergraduate degree in obtain bioinformatics skills and learn communications at Emerson College, more about insects and pathogens. She Cathy started working as a gardener will be working with Noah Whiteman, and landscaper in New York City. This an associate professor in the department experience rejuvenated her childhood of Integrative Biology, to examine the Cathy on Jebel Samhan, Oman, 2012. Photo by Carl Rothfels. appreciation of plant variation and led relationship between asexual reproduc- to a research position in the Molecular tion and herbivory using a combination In her spare time, Cathy enjoys hik- Systematics Lab at Brooklyn Botanic of next generation sequencing, classical ing in any and all mountains, camping, Garden. She then moved to Cambridge genetics techniques, and both field and traveling, and swimming in inadvisably where she accepted a lab manager posi- greenhouse experiments. cold water.

Forrest Freund is a PhD student his research into Isoëtes, with a new in the Rothfels lab who specializes in found focus on systematics, morpho- the systematics and phylogenetics of metrics, and phylogenetics. Upon seed-free vascular plants, specifically completion of his MS, Forrest applied Isoëtes of the Lycophytes. Forrest is a to and was accepted into the Integrative native Californian, having been born Biology program at UC Berkeley. in Sonoma County. At age seven, he While at Berkeley, he hopes to moved to West Marin, where he became continue what he began at CGU, using fascinated with the diversity of plant both morphometric and molecular phy- life and developed an intense desire to logenetics to explore the diversity and explore and understand nature. evolution of Isoëtes within the Pacific Intensely drawn to, in his own states. Of special interest is the use Above, Isoëtes nuttallii, from a seep popu- words, the “weird, obscure, or un- of Micro Computerized Tomography lation found on a granite outcrop north of derappreciated” aspects of botany, (micro CT) to look at the anatomy and Johnsondale, CA. Photo by Forrest Freund. Forrest initially had intended to focus morphology of Isoëtes to find novel Below, Forrest Freund. Photo by Ana Penny. his research interests on insectivory characters and gain improved under- in plants. However, while getting his standing of how the plants develop in undergraduate degree at Humboldt different environmental conditions. Ad- State and working at the teaching ditionally, he hopes to use population greenhouse, he was introduced to the genetics to explore gene flow between Lycophytes, which immediately drew disparate populations across the Pacific his interest, prompting him to change states. his focus to Isoëtes. Outside academia, Forrest enjoys After completing his BS, Forrest the reading the works of H.P. Lovecraft went off to work for the Bureau of Land and his contemporaries, as well as video Management in the Mojave desert for gaming, drawing, model building, hik- ~2 years before being admitted to the ing, swimming, and long periods of botany program at Claremont Graduate quiet solitude enjoying the outdoors. University (CGU), where he continued 6 Graduate Student News Two students in the Baldwin lab receive Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants from NSF We congratulate William A. Freyman, a third year graduate student, and Adam Schneider, a fourth year graduate student, on receiving NSF awards to support their dissertation work. These are highly competitive programs. The grants will provide support for both field work and lab work. Descriptions of their work are below.

William A. Freyman many species hybridize, resulting not Detecting introgression in the pres- in a bifurcating tree but a “network” ence of incomplete lineage sorting: of life. My research introduces a new Phylogenomics and hybridization in mathematical model to infer hybridiza- Chylismia (Onagraceae). tion over the tree of life and tests the Since Charles Darwin, biologists model with DNA data from a group of have understood that all organisms are highly hybridizing evening primrose united through a shared evolutionary plants that grow in the harsh habitats of history; all organisms are twigs on the the Sonoran, Mojave, and Great Basin tree of life. A major goal of evolutionary deserts. The advances this research biology has been to use DNA sequences makes will aid researchers, conserva- to reconstruct the evolutionary history tionists, and citizen scientists as they of relationships among organisms — to work to conserve lineages across the reconstruct the tree of life. However, tree of life that undergo hybridization. Chylismia claviformis subsp. peirsonii. biologists are increasingly aware that Photo by Will Freyman.

Adam Schneider ing numerous host-specific lineages sunflower, and other crops in Europe, Systematics, host-specificity, and as well as host-to-parasite horizontal Asia, and the Americas. genome evolution of holoparasitic gene transfer. This research will use plants: A case study in Orobanche genomic-scale sequencing of new-world (Orobanchaceae). Orobanche and field studies across Parasitism is a unique life history North America to develop the follow- strategy that has evolved independently ing: (1) a fine-scale understanding of dozens of times in plants, animals, and tempo and mode of genome evolution in other organisms. Due to its high biodi- parasitic plants, (2) a better understand- versity and a good understanding of its ing of host-breadth, and (3) abiotic and mode of parasitism, the non-photosyn- biotic habitat characteristics of each thetic parasitic plant genus Orobanche lineage, with a taxonomic revision to provides a remarkable opportunity for follow. In addition to advancing the understanding the unique macro- and fields of evolutionary biology and ecol- micro-evolutionary consequences of ogy, an improved understanding of host parasitism through a phylogenetic specificity and parasite genomics may framework. Adam’s recent work has be of use in combating several inva- identified both evolutionary and genetic sive species of Orobanche that cause Orobanche fasciculata parasitizing Er- consequences of parasitism, includ- severe agricultural damage to tomato, iogonum. Photo by Adam Schneider.

The Uni- SLO), Susan Mazer (UCSB), and the into the Darwin Core and Apple Core versity and iDigBio team of Gil Nelson (Florida data standards and recommendations. Jepson Her- State University), Pam Soltis (Uni- These standards are necessary for phe- baria were proud to host an NSF spon- versity of Florida), and Jill Goodwin nological data to be comparable across sored workshop for iDigBio (Integrated (Florida Museum of Natural History). institutions and will help to maximize Digitized Biocollecitons) titled Devel- Over 40 participants spent March the full research potential of specimens. oping Standards for Scoring Phenology 12–13, 2016, developing data standards Attendees included those working in from Herbarium Specimens. The work- for scoring phenology from herbarium collections, field-based phenology mon- shop was organized as a collaboration specimens. Hopefully, the resulting itoring programs, phenology research, between UCB and Jenn Yost (Cal Poly, draft recommendations will be adopted and data standards development. 7 New Edition of the Monterey County Flora published by the Monterey Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society. By Michael Mitchell The discovery of hundreds of new (to Monterey County is home to over Monterey County) taxa coupled with 2,300 different vascular plants; a re- the many taxonomic changes reflected flection of its extraordinarily varied in the second edition of The Jepson geography, geology and climate. A Manual (2012) made a thorough revi- field-portable key to this flora was first sion necessary. The revision was under- published in 1996 as An Illustrated taken by Michael Mitchell, a member of Field Key to the Flowering Plants of the Board of the Monterey Bay Chapter Monterey County and Ferns, Fern of CNPS, with the enthusiastic support Allies, and Conifers, by Mary Ann of Mary Ann Matthews and members Matthews. The book was structured of the Chapter. as a botanical key so as to be of more Since 1993, The Jepson Manual has practical use than a simple plant list become an increasingly indispens- and it was also seen as a way of mak- able resource for anyone interested in ing more widely available many of the the flora of California. In revising the fine drawings from Abrams’Illustrated Monterey County Flora, an effort was role in allowing a large number of Flora of the Pacific States. made to ensure that the keys and the drawings from The Jepson Manual to A new edition has recently been pre- information were aligned more closely be reproduced in the Monterey County pared under the more manageable title, with The Jepson Manual. The Jepson Flora. Members of the Herbarium staff “The Plants of Monterey County – an Online Interchange was an essential as well as contributors to The Jepson Illustrated Field Key” by Mary Ann resource in this process. The Jepson Manual gave generously of their time Matthews and Michael Mitchell, and Herbarium also played an important in dealing with technical issues.

From the Archives What would you do if you found out a genus had been named after you? By Amy Kasameyer, Archivist “We are busy in our small way over the botany. We find many honors and new Sara Plummer Lemmon danced discoveries as the result of our explorations in Arizona last year. Dr. Gray has recent- around the Lemmon Herbarium, over- ly returned from abroad and now takes up the work of botany with renewed vigor. In turning chairs! Sara Plummer Lemmon, looking over our collection of Compositae we sent to him, as he is the only authority co-founder of the Lemmon Herbarium in America in that order, he writes before finishing the package, “Dear Lemmon, I with her husband John Gill Lemmon, know that you will be rejoiced to learn that I see among the exceptionally fine collec- was an early California botanist and tion, a new genus that I take pleasure in naming for one of its discoverers – Plummera botanical artist who spearheaded the floribunda.” This is the highest honor that can be given in botanic nomenclature as it campaign to make the California poppy is the type to a new genus. Then he named a beautiful Stevia, Stevia plummera, so the state flower. Below she tells the you see, father, how your name is perpetuated and honored. L has a genus too, Lem- story in a letter sent to her father on monia California, and a Stevia Lemmoni, numbers and numbers of species on the January 1, 1882, after she heard Asa Pacific Coast named for him but no person can ever have but one genus, as Mattie Gray had named Plummera floribunda can explain. I was so delighted with the honor – and such a fine plant – 2 feet+ high, in her honor. that I danced around our big In 1882 the Lemmon Herbarium herbarium overturned the was located at Blake House, in down- chairs, embraced L & Moth- town Oakland. The Lemmons, along er in the most enthusiastic with John Gill Lemmon’s mother Ami- way, and they joined me la, also lived at Blake House. This letter in the celebration, and de- was found by Wynne Brown, who has clared that it was only right been researching Sara Plummer Lem- to have something cheery mon in our archives. Thanks Wynne! after so many hardships.” Image courtesy of the Archives of the Transcription courtesy University and Jepson Herbaria. of Wynne Brown. 8 Updating the Vascular Plant Checklist of the Crooked Creek Jepson Herbarium Resources Station, UC White Mountain Research Center & Projects related to the By Dylan Neubauer California flora For the past five summers, I have the buildings (ca. 250, equaling ca. ¼ of Approximately 400,000 plant specimens been “botanist-in-residence” at the the White Mountains flora). from California UC White Mountain Research Center Despite the dry winter, late precipi- Director: Brent D. Mishler Crooked Creek Station at 10,150 ft. in the tation enabled me to collect the major- California Phylodiversity Project White Mountains of eastern California. ity of taxa on my list, and I was able Systematics and ecology of Syntrichia Best known for the Great Basin bristle- to add several new ones. In addition, I Jepson Curator: Bruce G. Baldwin cone pine (Pinus longaeva), the White documented new populations for rare Jepson eFlora, Convening Editor Systematics and evolution of Calif. tarweeds Mountains have long been a botanical taxa including Botrychium ascendens, and relatives (tribe Madieae, Compositae), destination, and many fine botanists— Boechera pendulina, Transberingia Chaenactis (Chaenactidieae, Compositae), including W. H. Shockley, W. L. Jepson, bursifolia subsp. virgata, Potentilla con- and Collinsia (Plantaginaceae). Victor Duran, Mary DeDecker, D. W. cinna var. proxima, and Carex idahoa. Curator of Ecology: David Ackerly Taylor, J. D. Morefield, and others— A number of elevational shifts upward Ecology and evolution of California flora have made substantial collections there. were also recorded. Climate change impacts and conservation Mary DeDecker’s 1990s-era vascu- Approximately 700 mounted sheets strategies lar plant checklist for the area around will be used as vouchers for an il- Curator of Ferns and Lycophytes: Carl the station had fallen out of date. So, lustrated annotated checklist. A set is Rothfels last summer, with permission from the housed at the Jepson Herbarium, and Divergence and hybridization in Califor- Inyo N.F., I embarked on a project to high-resolution images of the sheets nian ferns and lycophytes (especially press, mount, and database specimens can be viewed on the UC/JEPS speci- Notholaena, Cystopteris, Isoëtes). of all taxa within a two-mile radius of men portal. Curator of Monocots: Chelsea D. Specht Evolution and biogeography of California monocots (including Allium, Nolina) Population structure and floral color pat- tern diversity in the Calochortus venustus complex Curator of W. N. Am. Botany: Barbara Ertter, Flora of Mount Diablo and flora of the East Bay North American Potentilleae Asst. Director for Collections and Cura- tor of Cultivated plants: Andrew Doran Asst. Director for Development & Out- reach: Staci Markos, Jepson eFlora, CCH Astragalus oöphorus var. oöphorus. Townsendia leptotes. Photo by Dylan Photo by Dylan Neubauer. Neubauer. & Globe editor Biodiversity Informatics Manager: David Baxter Collections Staff & Plant Identification: Kim Kersh, Clare Loughran, Ana Penny, and Margriet Wetherwax Archivist and Librarian: Amy Kasameyer Public Programs: Jeanne Marie Acceturo Membership, workshop enrollment, and Globe design: Edith Summers Staff Research Associate: Bridget Wessa Trustees: Vice Chancellor Emeritus Beth Burnside; UC Botanical Garden Director Paul Licht; Cathy Park; Professor Emeritus Russell Jones; Professors John Taylor and Brent D. Mishler (ex officio) Constancea: UC Publications in Botany UC White Mountain Research Center Crooked Creek Station. Photo by Dylan Neubauer. (online) 9 Save the Date May 1st Lifetime member hike in Sonoma County Become a Lifetime Member and join us for a brunch and a hike with our Director and Curator to view Sonoma county’s spring palette of wildflower color.

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Lifetime Members: Lowell Ahart Staci Markos Chris Walden, in honor of Bruce G. Baldwin Steve Matson Bob Haller and Nancy Vivrette Central Coast Wilds Mary Ann Matthews Norm and Cathy Weeden Alison Colwell Brent D. Mishler Marshall and Jenny White Susan Crocker and Lee Gallagher Michael Mitchell Marcia H. Wolfe, in memory of Christopher Davidson L. Maynard Moe, in memory of Dr. James Hickman Frank W. Ellis Larry Heckard Wilma and William Follette Richard Moe Kenneth Fuller, in memory of Dennis Mudd Thomas C. Fuller Jan Nachlinger Lawrence Giles Julie and Jim Nelson Jeffrey and Judy Greenhouse Richard O’Donnell Danica Harbaugh Reynaud Roger Overstreet Kenneth R. Himes Catherine Park Terry Huffman Stephen P. Rae Dwight L. Johnson Betsy Ringrose and Edward Adasiak Alan I. Kaplan, in memory of Lynn Robertson Dr. Lewis A. Coveler Thomas J. Rosatti, in memory of Robert W. Kirby, Jr. Jean Ann (Seely) Rosatti and Stefan Kirchanski and Ann Hirsch Edward James Rosatti, Jr. Shelby Kolstad Steve Schoenig Neal Kramer Jake Sigg Ann Lambrecht James P. Smith, Jr. Fritillaria liliacea Park L. Loughlin Dean Taylor © 2015 Aaron Schusteff

Memorial, Honorific, and Special Gifts The Jepson Herbarium is pleased to offer thanks to those who chose to honor or remember others with gifts to the herbarium, and those who gave funds for special projects.

Bob Battagin, In honor of Jim Battagin Yelena Kosovich-Anderson, In honor of Iraida G. Lyak- Claudia R. Lindsay, In memory of Annetta Carter hova and Ivan Ya. Lyakhov Sara Garcia, In honor of Pete Garcia Mary Beth Burnside, In memory of Rod Park Chris Walden, In honor of Bob Haller and Nancy Vivrette David Lennette, special gift for digitizing bryophytes and lichens of Costa Rica L. Maynard Moe and Cherie Wetzel, In memory of Larry Heckard Scott Koniecko, President of the Beatrix Farrand Society, special gift for digitizing Beatrix Farrand’s herbarium Carole S. Hickman, In memory of James C. Hickman from Bar Harbor, Maine. Theodora Lee Gregg, In memory of Robert Lloyd

10 Summary of changes made in Revision 3 of the Jepson eFlora, December 2015

CYPERACEAE Carex cyrtostachya newly described, added, as native Carex orestera newly described, added, as native, replacing Carex albonigra Carex xerophila newly described, added, as native

JUNCACEAE Juncus bulbosus added, as naturalized Juncus dichotomus added, as naturalized Juncus elliottii added, as naturalized Juncus trilocularis newly described, added, as native, replacing Juncus brachyphyllus

POLEMONIACEAE Eriastrum ertterae newly described, added, as native Eriastrum rosamondense newly described, added, as native Linanthus bernardinus newly described, added, as native Linanthus bernardinus. Photo by Duncan S. Bell.

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