April 2019 Update of the ILBBY
This weenie Androsace occidentalis taken by @vvoelker in Peoria County was chosen as iNat's Observation of the Day last week:
Stats
It's April 18th and the ILBBY 2019's got:
355 observers (+281)
4087 research grade observations of plants (+3130)
548 species (+225)
236 identifiers (+138)
There are eight naturalists who have observed over 100 species: @wildlandblogger @johnhboldt @missgreen @dziomber @sanguinaria33 @kkucera @bouteloua and @skrentnyjeff. @wildlandblogger is on a mission, with over 1000 research grade plant observations in Illinois (315 species) in less than 4 months.
Cute Plant Pics
Our most-observed species have swapped from easy/common winter trees to easy/common spring wildflowers: spring beauty (Claytonia virginica), bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), prairie trillium (Trillium recurvatum), and Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria).Just some lovely spring beauties by @janeogilvie in Lake County:
A pretty bloodroot with friend by @mjadams in Woodford County:
Check out these crazy super-leaved trilliums observed by @raspberrybee in Kane County:
City Nature Challenge 2019
Folks in northeast Illinois, get ready for the City Nature Challenge next weekend (April 26th through 29th).Ways to participate: join the project, find an event near you, go iNatting, and/or help identify the flood of observations that come in.
Help Identify
As always, please help your fellow botanists, when yr able, to identify/confirm their observations.New to Illinois on iNat
And keep an eye on these links for any new documentations in 2019.I commented on a few that folks like @psweet @wildlandblogger @paulroots and others may have found!
- Non-flowering plants
- Monocots excluding Poales
- Poales (grasses, sedges, rushes, & friends)
- Plants in Asterales (sunflower family and friends)
- Plants in Fabales (pea family and friends)
- Plants in Lamiales (mint family and friends)
- Plants in Rosales (rose family and friends)
- Plants in Brassicales (mustard family and friends)
- Plants in Ranunculales (buttercup family and friends)
- Plants in Caryophyllales (pink family and friends)
- Plants in Boraginales (borage family and friends)
- All other (eu)dicots except the groups above
