It's #CalBigGive! Today at the Jepson Herbarium, we're raising money to support production of the Jepson Videos. If you haven't seen our videos, visit youtube.com/c/JepsonHerbar… To donate, visit ucjeps.berkeley.edu/jeps/friends/d…

Our latest Jepson Video features Acer macrophyllum, the big-leaf maple youtu.be/HjEK4ElkobM Watch to learn how to identify this tree and the 3 other species of Acer found in California.

This week's Jepson Video features Cypripedium californicum, the California lady's slipper: youtu.be/tmI_CLAGCRA Watch to learn more about this native #orchid found in northern California!

Ep 314 is here & its about the Hawaiian silversword alliance 🌻 This group of daisy relatives represents one of the most remarkable adaptive radiations on the planet. Even more amazing is that they originated a single seed of a California tarweed 🤯 indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2021/4…

Our latest video features Aristolochia californica (California pipevine), the host plant for the California pipevine swallowtail butterfly: youtu.be/uHI-NFhIlv0 Aristolochia is one of only 2 genera of the Aristolochiaceae family found in California - do you know the other one?

#FlowerFriday We have a new Jepson Video! We're featuring Carpenteria californica, the bush-anemone - one of California's rarest and showiest endemic shrubs: youtu.be/nKkbnzPnR-Y

Ynés Mexía is featured in this great blog post from National Parks Conservation Association! Here's one of the herbarium specimens she collected in Alaska in 1928:

Plants in extreme environments “can be vulnerable to climate change in the sense that they can often be close to their ecological tolerance limits,” says University and Jepson Herbaria at UC Berkeley‘s Bruce Baldwin knowmag.org/3pHMhkg

Buried in archives, Civil War diary inspires biography of pioneering botanist news.berkeley.edu/2022/05/26/bur…

Want to learn more about ferns? Carl Rothfels presented a fern workshop as part of our IMLS funded Mini-Workshop series. youtu.be/mhNujUpXTbI?li…

Do you know the difference between mosses, liverworts, and hornworts? Brent Mishler's Introduction to Bryophytes workshop, part of our IMLS funded mini-workshop series, is now available youtube.com/watch?v=tAoq5j… Our full workshop schedule is here: ucjeps.berkeley.edu/workshops/

"Mi trabajo es un poco un trabajo de detective. Lo que hago es tratar de llenar los huecos de información a través del tiempo usando información de diferentes fuentes." –Ixchel, Bióloga Evolutiva UC Berkeley's UC Berkeley IB ft. University and Jepson Herbaria at UC Berkeley youtu.be/v2itcLlLi4Y

When Fremontodendron californicum (flannelbush), is in bloom, you can't miss it! These beautiful shrubs are in the Malvaceae. Watch our new Jepson Video to learn more about this species and the two other Fremontodendron species that occur in California. youtu.be/k8eEcWnB8XY

Videos from our latest IMLS funded botanical mini-workshop now available: What’s that called? Flowers and leaf terminology for plant identification presented by Bruce Baldwin and Susan Fawcett youtube.com/playlist?list=…

The University and Jepson Herbaria at UC Berkeley is hiring! This new position in collections management will initially focus on curation of #algae and work with our extensive phycological collections: ucjeps.berkeley.edu/CPD/algal_rese… To learn more and apply: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPLOY…

Join us for a life-changing two day lichen intensive in Berkeley (w/ a field trip trip to the wild woods of Marin county)!

For #calbiggive we are fundraising to support our amazing undergraduate students who digitize our herbarium specimens so you can access them online. With their help we have digitized over 1 million specimens! To donate: ucjeps.berkeley.edu/jeps/friends/d…

🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking w/ Nina House, Kathy Crane, Stanford University's Michael Wilcox & @CNPS's Andrea Williams about efforts to grow more native plants in CA. ❓ What are your favorite native plants and most disliked invasive species? 📻 Listen: kqed.org/forum/20101018…