Southern California Botanists 52nd Annual SCB Symposium
Where Cities Bloom: The Future of Urban Botany in Southern California
Saturday November 7, 2026
Location: California Botanic Garden
More details and event registration coming soon!
List of Past Symposia
- 2025 Birds, Bees, Flies, and Seeds: Pollination Biology and Seed Dispersal
- 2024 50 Years of Milestones in Botany: A Look into the Past, Present, and Future of California Botany
- 2023 I’ll Take My Plants Rare
- 2022 Islands: Isolated but not Desolate
- 2021 Conservation and Floristics of California’s Rare and Relictual Ecosystems
- 2020 Living on the Edge – Plants in Extreme Environments
- 2019 New Frontiers in Botany: Discoveries and Emerging Tools
- 2018 Botany in the Hot Seat: Vegetation, Fire and Climate Change
- 2017 Overlooked Plants: The Unseen Flora of California
- 2016 Back to the Flora II: the Future of Southern California Botany
- 2015 Back to the Flora: A Journey Through Southern California
- 2014 Southern California Plant Communities: Threats and Solutions
- 2013 Origin and Relationships of the California Flora: Was Raven Ravin’?
- 2012 From the Ground-up: Edaphic Factors & Plant Diversity
- 2011 Baja ,ha! Botanical Diversity of the Peninsula
- 2010 Southern California Mountains: You say coastal, I say cismontane
- 2009 California Desert Botany: Bounty or Bust
- 2008 Problem Plant Groups: Difficult to Understand and Identify
- 2007 Borderless Botany: Current Border Issues in Southern California
- 2006 Ecology and Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains
- 2005 Tools for Plant Conservations
- 2004 Ecological Islands and Processes
- 2003 Back From the Brink: Conservation Success Stories
- 2002 Rare Plants in Southern California