Quick BotanyBlitz Day 3 Update
The leaderboard has been a rollercoaster ride! You can click here if you want to view your current rank, rankings can be sorted by Most Obs and Most Species.
Some details for this evening:
- We broke 2,000 obs!
- We're very close to hitting 400 species, currently at 384 at time of reporting.
- @davidenrique joins the 50+ identifications club, and @laurabaird and @emerlee are right on the edge with 49 and 45 ID's, respectively. From far away in that other great commonwealth of Pennsylvania, @burls has rocketed into 1st place Identifier, with nearly 400 identifications made for Kentucky botanizers.
If you're curious what species have been observed this year that we didn't observe last year (and vice versa), keep an eye on the Compare tool throughout the week (page may take a sec to load). A lot of the differences in species lists between 2021 and 2022 will be due to this year's blitz being held a touch earlier in April, as well as a slightly cooler and slower start to spring. But some of the differences are interesting: nobody in the project observed Houstonia pusilla last year? Weird. Anyway, if you scroll down to where the "seen in 2021 and not in 2022" starts, there's a whole boatload species to put on your hitlist for the week.
Interested in helping with identification?
There are a lot more observations this year, and any IDs you can add or confirm helps to preserve the completeness and accuracy of Kentucky iNat data. It also helps train your eyes for the next time you're out and about. I've divvied up the most frequently observed taxa into somewhat more bite-sized units for folks who want to join the ID effort, you can click the links below to focus your efforts on particular groups of species.
If you'd like to make some ID's but you're newish to the world of wildflowers, you might want to try The Classics, Level I - This includes our most distinctive and iconic native species that many beginners can identify confidently, such as Virginia bluebells, mayapple, dwarf larkspur, bloodroot, wood poppy, blue-eyed Mary, and more. However if you're more experienced and want a challenge, you should try your hand at...
The Classics, Level II - This includes many common genera that require a closer examination or a little more experience to ID, such as violets, waterleaves, phacelias, toothworts, buttercups, ragworts, and others.
Monocots excluding Poales - Some of the most elegant and photogenic spring wildflowers, including Trilliums, jack-in-the-pulpit, trout lilies, Solomon's seal, orchids, and friends.
Bryophytes - Kind of niche for many of us, but check out this selection if you have any moss ID experience (@morghan-mccool might be able to help us out here?)
Unknowns in need of rescue - Sometimes new users accidentally create observations without adding an initial ID, and these no-ID obs can't be collected into the BotanyBlitz project unless they've at least been ID'd as Kingdom Plantae (although some of them might be for animals or fungi, so just ID accordingly). There may be a few lonely observations in here from time to time, any ID you can add will help bump them out of Unknown Limbo.
Looks like we've got a rainy couple of days coming up, hope you get a chance to get outside between showers!
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Just added some more IDs, I'm hoping I'll get back down to northern Kentucky tomorrow to keep adding to this list!
A great project. I'm assuming a lot of people get a lot out of it for a lot of different reasons. I'm just in awe of all of the species IDed. I'll never come close to learning most of them, but is just another way, other than tagging along with the botanists, naturalists, etc. on hikes where I always learn a thing or two, to get better at it.
Also thanks to the naturalist IDers that put up with our poor photos. I know I'm mostly interested in the glam shots and maybe not as much to include the leaves or other details needed for ID. Thanks!
@dperkins Your photos are very identifiable and gorgeous, I always look forward to seeing them :)
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