Jepson Herbarium Workshops

One camera. Two days. Nine orders (can you name them all?).

Photos taken at Hastings Reserve during the “Fifty Families in the Field” workshop, April 25-28, 2013 by Alex Jones. Thanks, Alex!

We came, we saw, we keyed: another fabulous session of “Fifty Families in the Field: Introduction to Keying” at UC Hastings Reserve in Carmel Valley.

Photos by Lynn Hori.

Cool rocks, field keying, collecting specimens, and enjoying a shady trail during the “Botany and Bighorn Sheep” workshop.

We were lucky enough to spot some horned lizards (Phrynosoma sp.) while botanizing last weekend. 

One more Tejon Ranch photo, courtesy of Heather Moine.

Mimulus pictus is so exciting that it deserves its own post. The Calico Monkeyflower grows in bare, sunny, shrubby areas around granite outcrops in the southern Sierra Nevada Foothills and the Tehachapi Mountain Area. These plants were on Tejon Ranch, next to the largest stand of currants that I’ve ever seen. 

I thought I was taking a ton of photos at the “Exploring Tejon Ranch” workshop this past weekend, but apparently I was spending more time gawking at the landscape than clicking the shutter. We saw so many incredible plants and amazing vistas, it feels like a dream.

Special thanks to Mike White and Scot Pipkin at the Tejon Conservancy for making our visit possible, Neal Kramer and Maynard Moe for taking us to such great field sites, and Linda and David Dore for feeding us so well.

Words alone cannot properly thank Jon Rebman (top, demonstrating why you should not get stuck with a cholla) for his stupendous workshop in Anza-Borrego March 21-24. We had a  great group, lovely weather… and lots of flowers! Not bad for a drought year.