Pre-BotanyBlitz Updates
Hey folks!
A quick reminder as the KNPS Wildflower Weekend inches closer, don't forget to join the 2022 BotanyBlitz Project, which will run from April 2-April 9! Simply head to the BotanyBlitz main page and click the "Join" button in the top right corner. Thirty-seven iNatters have joined so far, and we hope to see many more!
But of course, you don't need to wait till the BotanyBlitz to make observations, wildflowers across Kentucky are already starting to show their stuff. Let's take a look at how the wildflower situation is shaping up thus far.
The first three blooming native wildflowers this year were...
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Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) and Purple Cress (Cardamine douglassii)!
In first place, a startlingly early Spring Beauty was spotted by @gage_barnes at the Hancock Biological Station the afternoon of New Year's Eve, December 31. Although this observation technically occurred in 2021, we're counting it as a 2022 sighting since it was made a mere 9 hours prior to the new year.
In second place, another Spring Beauty was again spotted at the Hancock Biological Station, this time on January 31 by @fhincks.
And in third place, the first Purple Cress observation of the year appeared a mere two weeks later on February 15 at Floracliff Nature Sanctuary in Lexington, observed by @ky2c2t.
As the days continue to warm up, we're seeing more obervations of both Spring Beauty and Purple Cress, as well as the aptly named Harbinger of Spring (Erigenia bulbosa), a hint of Snow Trillium (Trillium nivale), Hepaticas (Hepatica acutiloba and H. americana), Bluets (Houstonia pusilla and H. caerulea), and Virginia Saxifrage (Micranthes virginiensis), as well as a variety of the usual cultivated bulbs and a host of non-native (but still cute) annual weeds. It's just a matter of time before the rest of Kentucky's spring wildflowers start to erupt out of the soil, so keep those observations coming!
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