California Botanical Society


The California Botanical Society was founded by Willis Linn Jepson in 1915 and has served a major role in advancing western American botany. Since 1916, the Society has published the peer-reviewed, scientific journal Madroño, the leading source of research articles on the natural history of western American botanical organisms (including those of Mexico, Central America, and South America). The Society welcomes membership by all interested individuals worldwide and encourages members to submit manuscripts on original research to the Editor of Madroño for consideration as publications in the journal. Articles and notes (in English or Spanish) on ecology, systematics, floristics, conservation biology, and other areas of organismal botany are routinely published in Madroño, in addition to noteworthy collections. The Society holds monthly lectures at U.C. Berkeley during the academic year and sponsors annual or biennial graduate student meetings and an annual banquet at various locations in California.

Next CBS Lecture: 17 April 2008, 7pm

Chelsea Specht, Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, http://pmb.berkeley.edu/~specht/

"California Alliums: Insights into a Biogeographic Radiation and Edaphic Evolution"

2063 Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley

2007-2008 schedule of lectures



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