The Shooting Star
SIERRA FOOTHILLS CHAPTER PUBLICATION OF THE CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY FEBRUARY 2012
Red Hills Soaproot
February’s Photographer: Bob Brown
Rawhide Hill Onion Congdon’s Lomatium (The little black dots are beetles!) President’s Message Greetings to all. 21 to coincide with Native Plant week in California. o all! I hope everyone had wonderful CALENDAR holidays and that the 2012 has started We are in the process of planning a off well for you. For those of you who training session for the Rare Plant Thursday, February 2nd, 6:00 pm missed our December potluck, it was a Treasure Hunts that we hope to Board Meeting (all members welcome) little different than normal because of sponsor this year and will be putting 7:00 pm General Meeting. Location: the electrical outages which forced us more information in our next Tuolumne County Library, 480 to move to the community room in the newsletter. Call me if you have an Greenley Road, Sonora. library. I would like to announce to all interest in participating. Refreshments will be served. of you who weren’t there my selections I look forward to seeing you at our PROGRAM: Val Myrick will give a for this year’s President’s Recognitions. February meeting! slide show about Penstemon. ( To All of these individuals met or -Bob Brown, President amend later today) exceeded the criteria for having contributed to our chapter’s successes <<<<<< <<< Membership: Jennie Haas California Native If you change your mailing or e-mail address, be sure 19287 James Circle Plant Society Dedicated to the Preservation of to send a notice to these people ⇾ Groveland, 95321 2702 K. St, Ste 1 California Native Flora. This will keep your newsletter on time! [email protected] Sacramento, CA 95816 FIELDTRIPS The Chapter ad hoc Field Trip Flowers Blooming This Month Committee is meeting on Saturday afternoon, January 28th to plan the 2012 field trip schedule. If you have field trip ideas, would like to lead a trip, or want to I’m again going to highlight some of the join the committee to help plan the rarer and less common wildflowers in our area schedule, contact Jennie Haas at that are all CNPS listed and that will be [email protected] or 209-962-4759. blooming a little later in the spring. All of these All suggestions and help are welcome. flowers can be found in the Red Hills area and are easily accessible with a minimum amount of From Headquarters: walking/hiking. All of these plants thrive on the serpentine soils of the Red Hills area. Rawhide Hill Onion The California Invasive Plant Council, a statewide conservation organization that The first flower is a Rawhide Hill Onion provides trainings and educational (Allium tuolumnense) which has been reclassified as being in the Alliaceae (Onion) resources for managing invasive plants in family (formerly in the Liliacea family). This plant can be found just off of the wildlands, are currently developing a northern serpentine loop trail and is only found in Tuolumne county. Our contact list for our training program in second flower is Congdon’s Lomatium (Lomatium congdonii) a member of the order to spread the word about our 2012 Apiaceae (Carrot) family with yellow blooms. The yellow bloom can be easily wildland weed management field courses mistaken at a glance for its cousin, Hog Fennel (Lomatium utriculatum) which also and newly completed Invasive Plant grows in the area. Our next plant is the Red Hills Soaproot (Chlorogalum Prevention Best Management Practices grandiflorum) a member of the Lily (Liliaceae) family. Its white flowers open manual. Our trainings occur all over the state around dusk and close with morning light. and focus on topics such as biology and At the very least I hope to have created enough curiosity through these identification of invasive plants, control blooms so that you will be motivated to get out and explore the great variety of methods, mapping, revegetation wildflowers in our area and perhaps even decide to join a Rare Plant Treasure techniques, and strategic approaches. Hunt in 2012. See www.cal-ipc.org/fieldcourses/ for our --Bob Brown 2012 schedule of field courses and habitat restoration workdays, or www.cal-ipc.org/ ip/prevention/ to download our Prevention Best Management Practices manual for Land Managers. For more information contact: Arpita Sinha, [email protected]. Training Program Specialist, California Invasive Plant Council WORKSHOPS 2012 continued www.cal-ipc.org Options for single day or 2-day. 1442-A Walnut St., #462, Berkeley, CA 1st day - Maintaining grassland biodiversity and basic plant ID. 94709 (510) 843-3902. 2nd day - Grassland vegetation sampling using Relevé method. Prices to be announced shortly. Further details will be available at http://cnps.org/cnps/education/workshops/ WORKSHOPS 2012 index.php. Contact Josie Crawford for more information. An important advance in systematics of California plants: Jan 31-Feb 2 Vegetation Mapping, The Jepson eFlora is now on line. University of Redlands and surrounding See http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html field sites. Instructors: Todd Keeler The Jepson eFlora initially parallels the second edition of The Jepson Manual, Wolf, Julie Evens, and John Menke. Three day combination of lecture, Vascular Plants of California, which is the work of 300 authors and editors being computer lab exercises, and field published by the University of California Press. exercises. Fees: CNPS members $665; The e-Flora includes all of the taxonomic treatments of the print Manual and has in Non-members $690 addition treatments for taxa that were excluded from the print Manual because of doubts about naturalization status. Interactive distribution maps linked to specimen Feb 15 Rare Plants of the Central Valley data from the Consortium of California Herbaria are included. Words that were UC Davis. Instructor: Carol Witham abbreviated to save space in the print Manual have been expanded. Keys are linked Fees: CNPS members $150; Non-members to the treatments to which they refer. Accepted names and synonyms can be searched $175 for. The eFlora is linked to the Jepson Online Interchange, and from there to March 22-23 California Rangeland numerous electronic tools. Monitoring, Lower San Joaquin Valley The Jepson Herbarium will work with the treatment authors and users to keep the March 22-23 California Rangeland eFlora in sync with advances in California botanical knowledge.-- Monitoring, Lower San Joaquin Valley Susan Bainbridge, Jepson Herbarium , CNPS Sierra Foothills Chapter 19287 James Circle Groveland, CA 95321 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Chapter Officers and Chairpersons JOIN NOW All phone numbers are 209 area code unless otherwise specified. PLEASE INCLUDE ME AS A CNPS MEMBER! Student/Retired/Limited income $25 PRESIDENT Bob Brown 928-9281 [email protected] Individual ...... $45 VP AMADOR CO. OPEN Family or Group ...... $75 VP CALAVERAS CO. Robert & Judy Dean 754-5887 [email protected] Library...... $75 VP MARIPOSA CO. Ann Mendershausen 742-7734 [email protected] Plant Lover ...... $100 VP TUOLUMNE CO. 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