BotanyBlitz Kickoff Day Review
First off, thanks a million to our iNat tutorial hike leaders across the state for sharing your knowledge and your love of Kentucky natural areas! Hope everyone had a lovely (if slightly brisk?) day outside, I know I did. Second, welcome new project members! We now have 133 wildflower fans in the BotanyBlitz project :)
Yesterday, we had
- 52 observers who made
- 747 observations, which were comprised of
- 204 species! Awesome stuff, you guys. (Numbers may change over time as more members add their observations.)
- 50 identifiers helped get 59% of our observations to Research Grade, which is a pretty dang high %RG for Day 1 of a botanyblitz -- thanks especially to @m_whitson, @emileee, @burls, and @john_adams who each made over 50 identifications for BotanyBlitz members!
If you have a little spare time to volunteer, can you help improve our Research Grade ratio by adding and confirming identifications for your fellow botanizers? Click the link below to pitch in:
--> HELP IDENTIFY
Another way you can help is to keep an eye on the "Unknowns" rolling in throughout the week. 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). Literally any ID you can add will bump these obs out of Unknown Limbo, and is a huge assist to the observers. Click here to help monitor these lonely observations:
-->RESCUE THE UNKNOWNS
And of course, some pics
Finally, here are a few observation photos I'm admiring from yesterday:
Two-leaf miterwort (or bishop's cap), a true special snowflake and an exceedingly challenging flower to photograph at less than 1/4" across, by @hitmewithyourmesomphix
Extra fancy rue anemone by @laurabaird
Always photogenic white troutlily by @dperkins
True blue Virginia bluebells by @reupurtbones
Very pretty color form of the normally deep burgundy red trillium by @john_abrams
How about you?
What was your favorite thing to see yesterday? Did you meet any new species for the first time? Let us know in the comments :)
Browse through the rest of the BotanyBlitz observations here!
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There were a few things of interest to me. The alum root always seems to find the more unacceptable places to sprout and then to occupy for years while never attaining a large size. I saw many specimens of the shooting star and the largest one was between rocks. Also, I didn't expect to see mountain laurel in the western part of the state. I am used to seeing mountain laurel when I visit my childhood haunts in the Appalachians.
Apparent Carex grows in clumps where there was once a pond in the woods. Posted yesterday, about to add a photo from a later stage in the growth cycle taken in a previous year at the same location in hopes that a better informed observer can see enough to pin an ID on it.
@charlesandrews2 Alumroot is such a trooper, ain't it?
@norabeck tag me in a comment in the observation when you add the photo, I'll swing by and check it out again
I finally learned what the weird pink flower I'd seen on Rush Ridge in previous years was - trailing arbutus! Also finally saw red trillium in bloom and some new lifers for me overall.
@emerlee Love Epigaea! The flowers look so glowy.
@charlesandrews2 (and anyone else who cares to weigh in), I've posted a couple of older shots of the Carex sp. and welcome your ID.
norabeck. To me, sedges will probably remain to be one of the many mysteries of life.
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