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Friends of the Herbarium 122,874 The Chico State Herbarium California State University, Chico Volume 26 Number 2 25th Anniversary Fall Newsletter October 2020 Arcles in this Newsleer: Announcing: Friends of the Herbarium Annual Meeting Page 1 ‐ FOH Annual Meeng with Guest Speaker October 22, 2020 7:00—8:00 pm Virtual Meeng (via Zoom) Page 2 ‐ Annual Meeng Guest Speaker Overview Capturing California's Flowers: Page 3 ‐ All Things Botanical— Join us! Building community, capacity, and discovery by digizing herbarium Page 4 ‐ 25th Anniversary— specimens Disnguished Service Awards Guest Speaker: Page 6 ‐ 25th Anniversary Annual Meeng Katelin Pearson Invited Speakers Curator, Robert F. Hoover Herbarium Project Manager, California Phenology TCN California Polytechnic State University More information on page 2 Page 8 ‐ 25th Anniversary Jokerst Award Also included: Page 10 ‐ Botanical Key Jim Jokerst Botany Award winner—Jacob Ewald Page 11 ‐ Book Review “Species Boundaries in Two Northern Page 11 ‐ Membership California Monkeyflowers” Informaon Herbarium and Friends’ Updates (Check the Friends website for the Zoom link) 2 (Continued from page 1) Annual Meeng Guest Speaker: Pearson Over‐ view: Digizing nearly one million herbarium speci‐ mens in only four years has proven an enor‐ mous task, yet the herbaria of California have rallied heroically to advance this effort. Now in The Friends of the Chico State Herbarium, year 2 of this successful NSF‐funded California State University, Chico, was "California Phenology (CAP) Network", we formed to help maintain the high quality have witnessed excellent progress toward our of work known to be associated with the goals despite setbacks due to wildfires, infesta‐ Herbarium. The primary purpose of the ons, and COVID‐19. The CAP Network presses group is to provide community support for onward to produce high‐quality specimen im‐ the Herbarium. This includes raising funds ages, transcribed label data, georeferenced for items that are not covered under the locality data, and data on the flowering and fruing mes of plants across University budget, in parcular the cura‐ the state, as well as educaon and outreach resources to expose a broader tor’s posion. Scienfic and academic pur‐ suits as well as community outreach are diversity of people to the rich resource of publicly accessible herbarium the focus of the group. The Friends also specimen data. This project has brought California's herbaria together to offer low cost workshops and classes on build tremendous capacity for the botanical community and beyond. various botanical topics. The Friends of the Herbarium operates under the auspices of the Research Foun‐ daon at the California State University, Chico, and as such enjoys non‐profit status and has access to the use of University classrooms and equipment. Memberships are renewed on January 1 of each year. Lawrence Janeway (above) imaging herbarium speci‐ mens which are then uploaded to the Consorum of BOARD OF DIRECTORS California Herbaria (hps://www.cch2.org/portal/) and Linnea Hanson Elena Gregg available to all. An example of a CHSC imaged speci‐ Rob Schlising Tom Griggs men (right) with color band at top used for camera John Whilesey Tim Hanson calibraon during the imaging process. Emily Doe Rob Irwin David Popp The Chico State Herbarium remains closed to in‐person visits for the me NEWSLETTER CO‐EDITORS being. Workshops sponsored by the Friends have Colleen Haield, Herbarium Director also been put on hold unl the University reopens. Lawrence Janeway, Herbarium Curator However, if you have botanical quesons, please feel free to reach out to Lawrence Janeway Newsleer ([email protected]), the Herbarium Curator or Volume 26 Number 2 Colleen Haield ([email protected]), the Her‐ The Newsleer is published two mes barium Director and we will work to help you if we per year by the Friends of the Herbari‐ um, California State University, Chico. can. Subscripon is free with membership. Importantly, we are able to ship books so if you Submissions on herbarium‐related top‐ want a book published by Studies of the Herbarium— ics are welcome. hps://www.csuchico.edu/herbarium/studies/book‐ list.shtml, please contact Janeway or Haield. Friends of the Chico State Herbarium October 2020 3 All Things Botanically Related During these challenging mes, the Friends of the Herbarium and the Chico State Herbarium want to provide a way for everyone to virtually escape to the natural world and marvel in it’s wonders. To that end, we are working on launching a series of free virtual presentaons. Our first very successful effort was launched by Dr. Rob Schlising, Professor Emeritus at Chico State University who presented on his current research passion, the biology of Dicentra uniflora (see below). The presentaon was deliv‐ ered via zoom with 40 parcipants joining in. The discussion following the presentaon was engaging and insighul. You can find a link to the presentaon on the Friends website or the Herbarium website. Plant of Dicentra uniflora, showing nature of the mature leaf and the single flower, typically only up to 3 inches (7 cm) high. (Photo by Robert Fischer) Below‐ground parts of two plants, showing fresh tubers (tan), depleted tubers from last year (brown), and a cluster of 4 pale leaase bulblets (which can provide vegetave repro‐ ducon) on top of the plant on Our next excing presentaon focuses on, of all things, buerflies the right. Each square of the grid of our region presented by Dr. Don Miller. Dr, Miller is an ento‐ is 1/5 inch (5 mm). mologist and professor at Chico State University. He has also led (Photo by Rob Schlising) a number of buerfly idenficaon workshops for the Friends of the Herbarium as well as orchestrang annual buerfly counts at Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve. "Ecology of Some California Buerflies and Their Host Plants." Thursday, October 29, 2020. 7:00 — 8:00 pm (via Zoom) Dr. Miller will provide a brief overview of the history of the study of buerflies in our region, with parcular reference to 19th‐century naturalists. He will highlight the biology, ecology and behavior of representave families and species, in the context of their host‐plant affinies and habitat requirements. He will also discuss on‐ going efforts towards wise stewardship of our buerflies, their host plants and habitats in the Anthropocene. Euphydryas editha on Calyptridium sp. At Lassen Peak 2019 (Photo by Don Miller) Zoom details for this meeng on the Friends of the Herbarium and Chico State Herbarium webpages Friends of the Chico State Herbarium October 2020 4 We connue our celebraon of the 25th‐Anniversary of the Friends of the Chico State Herbarium by re‐ flecng back on important events. We start with: Disnguished Service Award—a 25‐Year Retrospecve By Linnea Hanson From me to me the Board of Directors of the Friends of The Chico State Herbarium awards its Disnguished Ser‐ vice Award to a person who has made great contribuons to the Herbarium. This selecon is made to recognize con‐ tribuons to the Herbarium on a number of different levels, from volunteer service to dedicated employment, to man‐ agement support. Each awardee is honored at the Annual Meeng, and receives a piece of original plant‐oriented art‐ work and a congratulatory plaque to go with it.. Here we celebrate those who have received this award over the last 25 years: 1996 Vernon H. Oswald. 1997 Lowell Ahart. Award Award plaque was a stained was a painng of Ahart’s glass by Randy Rickert Buckwheat (Eriogonum um‐ (Joyce Lacey’s husband) bellatum var. ahar) by Judy which included images of McCrary. Besides working Mt. Lassen and Arnica flow‐ with Vern on the “Manual ers. Vern produced “Manual of the Vascular Plants of of the Vascular Plants of Bue County, California” Bue County, California” and “Selected Plants of and Selected Plants of Northern California and Ad‐ Northern California and Ad‐ jacent Nevada”, Lowell has jacent Nevada” with Lowell also mounted many of the Ahart and authored several specimens in the Chico other floras. State Herbarium. 1998 Kingsley Stern. 1999 Jan Monelo. Award Award was a photo of was a photo of Purple Steer’s Head (Dicentra uni‐ Mouse Ears (Diplacus flora) by Linnea Hanson. (Mimulus) douglasii) by Kingsley was the Director of Kingsley Stern. Jan was in‐ the Chico State Herbarium strumental in bringing to‐ for 34 years. The herbarium gether the people who grew from 2800 specimens formed the founding board to more than 71,000 speci‐ members of the Friends of mens the Herbarium in 1995. Jan was one of the founding members. 2000 Michael Abruzzo. 2002 Lawrence Janeway. Award was a vase etched Award was a vase etched with an Interior Live Oak with Brewer’s Sedge (Carex (Quercus wislizeni) by Kerry breweri) by Kerry Rippon. Rippon. As the Department Lawrence began as a stu‐ of Biology chair Mike was dent assistant, then volun‐ instrumental in the renova‐ teer, then assistant curator on of the herbarium in and now the curator of the 2000. Chico State Herbarium. Connued on Page 5 Friends of the Chico State Herbarium October 2020 5 (Connued from Page 4—25th‐Anniversary Disnguished Service Award Retrospecve) 2004 Patricia Edelman. 2005 Bill Carlson. Award Award was a vase etched was a vase etched with Bris‐ with California Lady’s Slip‐ tlecone Pine (Pinus longae‐ per Orchid (Cypripedium va) by Kerry Rippon. Bill was californicum) by Kerry Rip‐ a dedicated volunteer that pon. Patricia was very sup‐ added the latude and lon‐ porve of the Chico State gitude to the specimens so Herbarium as the Depart‐ that Global Posioning Sta‐ ment of Biology chair. on Units could be used to find the locaons of the specimens in the field. 2006 John Dies. Award 2007 Krisna was a vase etched with Schierenbeck.