CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY Dedicated to the Preservation of California Native Flora Box 397, Berkeley, California 9Lj.?01 Vol* III, No. 3______________________________March-April 1967 Special Announcement Issue, Devoted. Primarily to Chapter Officers and Field Trips CHAPTER OFFICERS Gualala Chapter President Mrs. Dorothy Young Vice President Mr. Fred Schuler Secretary Mrs. Winifred Schuler Treasurer Mr. Charles Migliavacca Monterey Bay Chapter President Miss Beatrice F. Howitt 1st Vice President Dr. Winona Trason 2nd Vice President Mrs. Edith Brattin Secretary Mrs. Judson Vandevere Treasurer Mr. Richard Robinson Publicity Chairman Mrs. Edward Fagan Sacramento Valley Chapter President Dr. Grady Webster Vice President Dr. A. L. Delisle Secretary Miss Mary Ann Wohlers San Luis Obispo Chapter President Miss Mirriam Hull Vice President Mr. Louis Wilson Secretary Miss Nancy Scheu Treasurer Mr. Robert Zazueta Sierra-Santa Monica Chapter President Mrs. James A. Funkhouser Secretary Mrs. James Blakeley Treasurer Mrs. Everett plumer FIELD TRIP SCHEDULES As Confirmed So Far Through June Some dates may be changed and some more trips may be added. Your chapter field trip representative, president, or secretary will have immediate information. In our next Newsletter, we will announce any changes. All field trips are subject to suitable weather conditions. Bay Area April 8--Saturday—Perkin's Canyon on Eastern Mt. Diablo. Meet 10:30 a.m. about 5 mi. from Clayton at junction of Marsh Creek Road and Morgan Territory Roads. Leader, Cy Coenen, Concord, A. C. 1|25, 685-i!-391. -2- April 16—Sunday—Ione-Carbondale. Listed under Sacramento Valley Chapter. April 23--Sunday—Mills College. Enter campus at Richard Gate. Drive on Richard Road to Life Sciences Bldg. to begin tour at 10:30 a.m. of the native plant garden and trees around the campus. Bring lunch. Leader, Dr. Baki Easapligil, A. C. lp.5, 533-6899. April 29—Saturday—Rincon Ridge, Meet at noon at Gen. Vallejo's home in Sonoma, picnic tables are on grounds. After lunch will journey up Los Alamos Road about 3 miles east of Santa Rosa. Charles Newman Will l«ad us to his ranch which is serpentine area with fine assortment of plants. A. C. I±l5* 755-6808. April 30—Sunday--Boonvilie, Wildflower Show at the County Fair Pavilion. Open 10 a.m. Bring lunch or restaurants are ac- cessible. Cake and coffee will be on sale at the Pavilion. Go north on U.S. 101 to 1 mile above Cloverdale and turn westward toward Port Bragg. Figure three hours driving time from Bay Area. May 6 & ?—Saturday & Sunday—Stinson Beach. Nildflower Show. May llj_--Sunday--Gualala. Meet at Havens Neck, exactly 1 mile north of Anchor Bay at 9:30 a.xa. Dorothy and Charles Young \1iill lead the group through Havens Neck area, probably the most import- ant floral province for saving from development. Also wl 11 in- spect the Sea Ranch and finish the day with a short hike at Grandpa Charley's Park. Figure about a four hour trip from the Bay Area. Leaders, Chas. & Dorothy Young, P. 0. Box 5U, A. C. 707, 88ij.-3U.90. June 9, 10, 11—Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. Meet at Wells Cabin Campground Friday night 1 mile from Anthony Peak Look- out. Stay at Plaskett Campground on east side of summit of Covelo- Willows highway on Saturday night. Will inspect the fine flora of the high altitude Inner Coast Ranges on snow-capped Anthony Peak and Black Butte in southwestern Tehama and northwestern Glenn Counties respectively. Be prepared for cold nights. Leader, Wayne Roderice, Berkeley, A. C. lp.5, 81x1-7107,, Gualala Chapter April 16—Sunday—Cow Mountain. Meet at 9:30 in front of Talmage Store near Ukiah. Leader, Al Whitney, A. C. 707, li62-li9ljS. May 111- - Sunday- - Le ading the Bay Area group through Havens Neck. June 2li & 25—Saturday & Sunday. Contact Mrs. Dorothy Young, P. 0. Box 51)., Gualala, A. C. 707, 881±-3l±9G for a trip to see Indian Pipes (Monotropa uniflora) on theChetco River in Harbor, Oregon. MONTEREY BAY CHAPTER April l5--Saturday—1 to 5 p.m. A sale of native plants at Jewel Park in pacific Grove opposite the P. G. Natural History Museum. This will coincide with the Wildflower Show at the Museum on April ll±, 15 and 16—Friday, Saturday and Sunday. -3- April 21—Friday—neetin^ at 8 n.m. in the Tusic Room of the Carmel High School. Dr. Robert Hoover of California Polytechnic State College, San Luis Obispo, will be the speaker. April 23—Sunday—Field trio to Royal Oaks Park in northern Konterey County, L'eet at 10 a.m. and bring lunch. A. C. Ii08, 373-2888. '¦ ' Hay 21--Sunday—To collect seeds of native slants. Leader, Edith Brat tin, A. C. k08, 659-2165. Further notice will be given later as to the destination and hour. June k—Sunday—D'Amrogio Reserve. Reservations must be made for this trip as they are only able to accommodate a group of 50. Reservations xl 11 be made by Liss Beatrice F. Eowitt, 1006 Benito Ave., Pacific Grove, A. C. k08, 373-2888. Sacramento Valley Chapter Anril 9—Sunday—Vernal pools of Solano County to see display of spring annuals, ileeting place Iiilk Farm Restaurant north of Dixon on Interstate 80 at 10:00 a.m. Group will proceed along Dixon-Rio Vista Hwy. Leader, Don Kyhos, A*. C. 916, 756-3503. April 16--Sunday--lone-Carbondale. Meet at 10:30 a.m. at junction of Highway 10k and Irish Kill Road about 2|r mi. northwest of lone. Field trip activity will start about 1,2 mi. un Irish Hill Road. Plenty of marking facility. Bring lunch. Leader, Roman Gankin, Davis, A. C. 916, 753-3988. Hay Ik- -Sunday--Heet in Nevada City at Seven Kills School, on right;' as one enters town from south, at 9:00 a.m. Good hiking shoes are recommended for the gr.velly walk along the flume of the South Fork of the Yuba River. Leader, Lillian Hott. June 21'-—Saturday—Yuba Gap and Ilear's ileadow. :_;lev. 5000 to 55001. Leader, H. Shaman, Auburn, A. C. 916, 885-5672. July 1-k—Saturday through Tuesday—Plant hunting at Potato and liasonic Mountains north of Bodie. Leader, Roman Gankin. San Luis Obi stop Chapter April 1--Saturday—Joint Sierra Club trip to Carrizo Plain and Temblor Range. Meet 6 a.m. Santa Margarita P. 0. Leader, Dr. Robert F. Hoover, A. C. 805, 51;-3-7S60. Sierra-Santa Iionica Char ter ipril 9- -Sunday—Red Rock Canyon in To^anga. Leader, Helen Funkhouser, 30887 I'lulholland Ilwy., Cornell, Calif. 91315, A. C. 213, 889-1378. -k- APRIL GiUir.iRlL IOMB"RSHIP 17Z JTIFG The Bajr Area general meeting for all membership will be held on April 13 at 8 p.m. in room 101 of Morgan Hall on the U. C. campus at Berkeley. Dr. Rimo Bacigalupi of the University of California at Berkeley and Dr. Baki Kasapligil of Kills College will present a program of slides and lecture entitled i!What Are They and How Do They Get That "'..'ay." Preceding the general program, a business-dinner meeting will be held at the Men's Faculty Club, University of California at Berkeley campus, at 5 p.m. In the Lewis Latimer Room. Each member will pay for his own dinner. CHANGLS VOTED TO BY-L/US In February the Board approved a number of revisions to the By-Laws, the most Important being a change of election of Board members. Only those present at the annual meeting have been able to vote. Hence, member? who did not live in the San Francisco Bay Area have been effectively disenfranchised. Provisions for nomination of candidates other than by the appointed nominating committee were unreal!stically stringent In relation to the number of votes necessary to elect. The Board acted to establish a mail ballot sent to all members, and made it possible for candidates also to be nominate^1 by petition with at least 10 members signing, the petition to be presented to the Secretary not less than h£ days before the annual meeting. Other changes established a parliamentary authority, provided for annual reports to be submitted to the membership by the president and the Treasurer, and established three successive unexplained absences as grounds for possible termination of a directorship. Verbatim copies of these changes vslll be sent to any member who requests them. Since the Board in recent months has been more vitally concerned with the financial survival of CNPS (which is no longer in debt at this time I), the method of voting was not changed in time to conform with the designated April time for the annual meeting. Although a general meeting will be held (see elsewhere in this Newsletter for details), the election has had to be postponed for a few weeks. A nominating commit- tee will present its selections to the Secretary by April 20. Any members wishing to nominate candidates by petition should also submit these to the Secretary by that date. Alice Q. Howard SACRAMENTO VALLEY CHAPTER FIEL^ TRIP The first field trip of the season for the Sacramento Valley Chapter was on 26 February. Proceeding out highway 26 east of Stockton via Bellota, the group rendezvoused at Jenny Lind. The interesting botany started south of Jenny Lind along South Gulch. An area of shallow soil had a number of spring-flowering annuals, Blennosperma nanum, Baeria chrysostoma, Dodecatheon patulum, Viola douglasii, Montia -5~ verna, Tillaea erecta, Alchemilla occidentalis were all flow- ering, Lewisia rediviva, Sedella congdonii, Arenaria califor- nica which also form the characteristic association on such shallow, acid "soils" which are really rock outcrops x^ere in bud. In all, 30 plus species were identifiable at this one spot. Later Mr. Dean Taylor took the approximately $0 of us to a disjunct area of the normally Coast Range Ribes malava- ceura in the chamise chaparral near the south end of the New Hogan Reservoir. The plants were in full, beautiful, bee-full bloom. Jack Major Carol Sorensen from Oakland reported several people from the Bay Area made the trek to Jenny Lind. BAY AREA FIELD TRIP On March 19, Doug Jones led the Bay Area group through the Pitkin Marsh near Sebastopol. On display, in part, was Hydrocotyle verticillata, Isoetes howellii, Callitriche bolanderi, Polygonum hydropiperoides, Montia hallii, Lilaea scillioides, Ledum columbianum and Crataegus douglasii. In the afternoon we went up Dorman Canyon Road along Crane Creek west of Healdsburg in the Dry Creek watershed. Thickets of azalea were in blossom. Also there were profusions of Fritil- laria recurva and Scutellaria tuberosa. Dean Taylor of Stockton and Jaraes Roof assisted Doug in identifying the plants. 36 people attended, PLADiT WE .S A fine stand of Fritillaria biflora is to be destroyed about one mile south of the Hearst Castle entrance. Here is a chance to try to grow some in your native plant garden and save the colony from becoming "road fill" for ''progress11. These choice plants are to be found on the ocean side of the road immediately beyond a bridge. They grow only in deep clay. These plants do well in gardens if they are given no summer watering, Fritillaria biflora is showing its contentment at the U. C. Botanic Garden both in the native clay and in foot deep boxes. They produce up to 10 flowers per stem, Layne Roderick PLANT 0j' TEE 1 ONTH EHIT., FRITILLARY Because of their lily-like appearance and spotty occurrence, fritillarias are always a pleasant and surprising discovery to plant hunters looking for new finds. In the San Francisco Bay region, the creamy-xtfhite flowers of the white fritillary (Fritillaria. liliacea) x^ere formerly one of the joys of spring afternoon walks over our grassy hillsides. Mow, however, most of the places where this species could formerly be found have been over-run by suburbia, and many of the remaining localities for it are in danger. Ue should, therefore, be particularly on the watch for it, and locate-definitely some" plants tfhich are already safe or can be preserved in a regional park. We should also look for plants of it which are doomed to extinction by some new housing development, and rescue them for our gardens before it is too late. The white fritillary occurs in scatter- ed patches in parts of Marin County, the San Francisco Peninsula, the Eastbay, and northern Monterey County. Watch for it.' You can easily recognize it by its relatively low stature (3 inches to a foot high), and its greenish to creamy white flowers about 3/k inch and borne singly or in groups of 2 to 5 on a stem, G. Ledyard Stebbins California Native plant Society Box 397, Berkeley, California 9^701 Nonprofit Org. ! 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