For many of us it is exciting just to know that there can still be surprises and survivors in our altered landscapes.

Keep looking!

Gary D. Wallace President, SCB

______2005 SCB Symposium Volume 14 Number 4 July-August 2005 ______

The Southern California Botanists’ Annual Symposium will be held on October 22, 2005 at President’s Message California State University, Fullerton. The preliminary program is below. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend a day of very This has been quite a year for discovery. Thanks to interesting and informative talks. the diligence of Jenny McCune on Santa Catalina Island californicum has been rediscovered. The species was described by Nuttall TOOLS FOR from a specimen collected on Catalina in 1847 by CONSERVATION Gamble and had not been collected since that time.

Edward Palmer found the same annual grass on SPEAKERS AND TENTATIVE TOPICS Guadalupe Island in 1875 and Blanch Trask found it on San Clemente Island in 1903. These were the Roxanne Bittman - The California Natural Diversity known collections of this plant. Jenny’s discovery Data Base. of this grass on Catalina Island Conservancy lands was the first time the plant was collected in over Scott Eliason - Diverse methods for conserving 100 years. I heard that crawling through Opuntia on National Forest lands. was the cost to some visiting botanists.

Dr. Elizabeth Friar - Application of genetics as a This discovery and others made recently, gives us conservation tool. hope that other species may yet be rediscovered.

Monardella pringlei may still survive on the sandy Dr. Kate Kramer - PVA (Population Viability areas near Colton. Looking in places you might not Analysis) for plants. expect to find things is often the key. Vouchering specimens allows others to verify what we identify Michael Wall - The role of seed banks and botanic and find things we have misidentified. gardens in plant conservation.

Nancy Refulio will include Dissanthelium californicum in her work currently in progress at John Willoughby - Monitoring as a tool for plant Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. She is studying conservation. all of the species of the genus Dissanthelium for her doctoral degree. The closest relatives of this grass appear to be from . This will add to Crossosoma News out knowledge of the phylogeny and phytogeography of the group.

1 Crossosoma Vol 30, 2004 (two issues) is going to Saturday July 9 – Summer Maintenance of a print. Included are a progress report on the floristic Native Plant Garden. Join Barbara Eisenstein, studies of the Whipple Mountains (De Groot), an Horticultural Outreach Coordinator for the Rancho Santa article on the rarity of mistletoes (Magney), a status Ana Botanic Garden for a 2-hour workshop on report on Allium parishii (White), some noteworthy optimizing the performance of your native garden during collections in San Bernardino and Ventura counties the summer. Topics will include evaluating and (White), an extensive flora of Fort Tejon State preparing a garden for fall planting, adjusting the summer watering regime, and other topics related to Historic Park (Moe), a review of Nash's Lichen summer maintenance. Cost is $44 per person ($35 for flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert (Knudsen), and members). The workshop is from 10 a.m. to noon and is a reprint of an interesting historical newsletter from limited to 20 participants. Contact Rachel Kau-Taylor at the Nature Club. (909) 623-8767 ext. 224 or email her at Rachel.Kau- [email protected] to reserve your spot. Carl Wishner is stepping down as editor for Crossosoma, and Denise Knapp will be assuming Sunday, July 17 – Hot Summer Botany! Join responsibilities as the new editor. Thanks to Carl Lorrae Fuentes, Director of Education at the Rancho for all of his work on Crossosoma, and Santa Ana Botanic Garden, for a class in identifying congratulations to Denise! Effective immediately, native plants. Completion of Beginning Botany is new submissions should be directed to Denise recommended, but not required. The class runs from Knapp. Carl suggests that the membership support 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., costs $60 ($50 for members), and is limited to 12 participants. Contact Rachel Kau- Denise in her new role as editor with a flood of Taylor (contact information above) for reservations. submissions! This class will be offered again on Saturday, August 20. Please submit manuscripts for Volume 31 of Crossosoma electronically (preferably in Microsoft Tuesday, July 19 and Tuesday, August 23 – Word format) to Denise Knapp by email: Evening Horticultural Walks in the Garden at [email protected] the Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden. Join the staff of the RSABG on a walk to learn which native Authors may also contact the new editor by mail or plants perform best during hot summer months, and how phone: to add color, interest and enjoyment to your native plant Denise Knapp, Editor of Crossosoma landscape. Walks are from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Cost is $5 P.O. Box 2739 per person per evening and walks are limited to 20 people per walk. Contact Rachel Kau-Taylor (contact Avalon, CA 90704 information above) for reservations. Phone: (310) 510-1299

Crossosoma publishes a wide variety of botanically Sunday, August 28 – Fire Safe Landscaping. Join related pieces, including research articles, editorials, Susan Frommer, Landscape Designer, and Lorrae book reviews, noteworthy collection notes, original Fuentes, Director of Education for the Rancho Santa artwork, photographs, and other material. Ana Botanic Garden, for a tour of Susan Frommer’s home, located in Murrieta on chaparral-covered slopes. The tour will feature landscape techniques designed to maintain defensible space around the home, including Upcoming Events and demonstrations of appropriate pruning, clearing, and spacing of landscape plantings around homes near Field Trips chaparral. Lunch and transportation are included in the fee. Cost: $90 ($75 for RSABG members). Limit: 10 participants. For further information, visit the Rancho Saturday July 9 – Blooms and Butterflies. Santa Ana Botanic Garden website (www.rsabg.org). Sponsored by the San Gabriel Mountains Chapter of CNPS; led by Jane Strong. Meet at 9:00 am at the Saturday, August 13 – The Basics of Outdoor USFS Mt. Baldy Visitor Center. For more information Digital Photography. Joint John Macdonald, call (909) 982-2829 and ask for Steve Segreto. photographer, for a class on getting the most out of your digital camera. Class will be from 8:00 a.m. to noon. Cost: $60 ($48 for RSABG members). For further

2 information, visit the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden website (www.rsabg.org). Copies of Timothy S. Ross’ outstanding article, Herbarium specimens as documents: purposes and general collecting techniques, reprinted (with SCB Symposium T-Shirts minor corrections) from Crossosoma 22(1), Spring- Summer 1996, pp. 3-39, is now available for

purchase from SCB. This detailed and humorous We have a surplus of T-shirts from the 2004 guide to the why, how, and most important, how not symposium. These T-shirts have a message about of making quality botanical voucher specimens is a our endangered plants and communities that needs “must read” for any students taking field botany or to get out to the general public. In addition, we local flora courses. Even the most experienced have discounted the price on the T-shirts to $11 professional field botanist will find ways to improve and will cover the cost of tax, shipping and the quality and value of their collections by handling if you order one today! We have XXXL, following the guidelines Tim sets forth in this little XL, LG, and Med sizes. Please send your order to gem. Alan Romspert, Department of Biology, California

State University, Fullerton, CA 92834). Cost: $3.95 each; 10 for $22.50.

Orders for Ross Collecting Technique reprints SCB Brochures should be addressed to: Alan Romspert; Southern California In an effort to expand the exposure of our Botanists; Dept. of Biology; California State organization, the Board, mainly through the efforts University of Denise Knapp, has produced a tri-fold color Fullerton, CA 92834 brochure. We need our members who have access to public groups that might be interested in the organization to help us distribute this brochure. If you believe this describes you, please request copies of the brochures from Alan Romspert at (714) 870-0946 or [email protected] and he will mail them to you.

Information to be included in the next issue of LEAFLETS (Vol. 14, No, 5) should be sent to the editor by August 3, 2005. Please send material by email to [email protected], or by mail to: Kimberlyn Williams, Editor of Leaflets Biology Department, CSUSB 5500 University Parkway San Bernardino, CA 92407 Astragalus albens E. Greene Cushenbury milk-vetch

Reproduced with permission from Leroy Abrams' Ross Collecting Techniques Reprints Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States, Stanford Univ. Press Available

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