1', 2', 3', 5', 8', 10', 11.
Took me straight to Tulip Tree (skipped a group)

1.
Group 1: 1', 3.
Dragon Tree

1' - 2' - 3' - 5' - 8' - 9' - 13' - 14 - Group 9

Group 9 - 1' - 3 - 4' - 5' - 6 - Wild Lilac, California Lilac (Ceanothus spp.)

1' - 2' - 3' - 5' - 8' - 9' - 13' - 14 - Group 9

Group 9 - 1' - 3' - 7' - 8' - 9 - 10 - Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)

Tree 1 : black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica)
Keying Steps: 1', 2', 3', 5', 8', 9', 13 --> Group 8 : Trees with alternate, simple, smooth leaves
Group 8 --> 1', 3', 4', 16', 18', 19', 23', 24', 27', 29', 30', 31', 32', 33', 34', 35', 26', 40', 41', 42

I almost lost hope trying to key this tree after I reached the group. The longer the chain of keying steps grew, the more I wondered if I had gone wrong somewhere along the way and if I was standing in front of this person's house for too long for no reason. However, those fidgety feelings were probably just due to the immediate gratification I've become used to for so many things. I think it's correct, but even if it's not, it was exciting to finally come to an answer.

Tree 2: Monterey cypress (Hesperocyparis macrocarpa)
Keying steps: 1', 2', 3, 4 --> Group 2 : Trees with scale-like, awl-like, or apparently absent leaves
Group 2 --> 1', 4', 6', 8', 9', 11

The genus of this tree was different in the keying manual than on iNat, which confused me for a minute. Nothing google couldn't answer.

1' - 2' - 3' - 5' - 8' - 9' - 13 - Group 8

Group 8 - 1' - 3' - 4' - 16' - 18' - 19' - 23' - 24' - 27 - 28 - Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora)

Tree Identification 1: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47405006
1', 2', 3', 5', 8 - Group 7
1', 2', 5', 7', 9', 10', 12', 13', 15', 16 - Brush Cherry

Tree Identification 2: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47404135
1', 2', 3', 5', 8', 9', 13 - Group 8
1, 2 - Bottlebrushes

Blue Gum Eucalyptus- E. globulus\

key to group#: 1', 2', 3', 5', 8', 9', 13 ---> group 8

g8: 1', 3', 4', 16', 18', 20 ---> Eucalytus spp.

pg56: 1', 11 -----> Blue Gum

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Myer Lemon tree:
1', 2', 3', 5', 8', 9', 13', 14', 15 ----> group 10

g10: 1', 2 ---> Citrus spp.

I took all of these throughout the natural parts of my neighborhood. Since I live in a hilly area, there are many naturally occurring plants all over. There's a park near my city hall that has a large natural area that I visited for most of my pictures, and a few I found in natural areas a block down from my street.

tree 1) group 8. 1', 3', 4', 16', 18', 19', 23', 24', 27, 28 (magnolia grandiflora)

tree 2) group 8. 1', 3', 4', 16', 18', 19', 23', 24', 27', ...

down on the path edge to faversham
each time we got close they flew a little further, so we got to see them multiple times

We are in our last week of new assignments and class work. This project will be open through the end of the school year (June 12th). I encourage you to continue to get outside and see what you can find and identify. You guys have been working hard and I so greatly appreciate that. Keep up the good work and see how many more different species we can identify.

Due to the travel restrictions and policies by our organization and project sponsors in response to the novel coronavirus, we will not be traveling to Michigan dwarf lake populations in 2020. For those living near dwarf lake iris populations, we would love to see your observations here on iNaturalist!

Флора Иркутской области | Irkutsk Oblast Flora
5000 наблюдений.
800 видов.
За шесть дней количество наблюдений увеличилось на 1000. Видов добавилось 62.
В этом заслуга всей команды Иркутской обл. и ее друзей.
Но особенную благодарность хочется выразить https://www.inaturalist.org/people/allaverkhozina
Благодаря ее усилиям смогли "разгрести" неопределенные наблюдения и идентифицировать огромное количество "свежих".
Спасибо и новичкам и тем кто здесь не первый год.
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/nikolaydorofeev
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/tarasov
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/veronika_belova
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/olga_zavgorodnyaya
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/edem654
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/deniskrivenko

Ну и конечно большую помощь оказали эксперты:
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/julia_shner
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/convallaria1128
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/phlomis_2019
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/aleksandrebel

After 8 days the Bioblitz collected 211 bird observations in 77 different species. Here are some of the highlights:

Trogon433's Bobolink

AnnaB3's Mute Swan

Kendall Woods' Wood Stork

R. Corley's Pilieated Woodpecker

Jakematt's American Robin on a nest

n3m0's Red-bellied Woodpecker

Bruce Taterka's American Oystercatcher

Those first fleeting sunny afternoons in April bring us a particular excitement. At this point, we’ve been lambing for a few weeks, and new moms are still very happy for the cozy barn on wintery nights. But on those warm afternoons we look around and see the snow receding, see the tree buds swelling, feel the sun on our faces, and our thoughts turn to GRASS! Of course, those first days of Spring sunshine are inevitably followed by sobering cold snaps but the season is not without its opportunities.

Sheep grazing between brown canary-grass stems and the dairy barn our pasture once produced bedding for.

As the soil thaws and grass awakens, we reflect on our pasture. We’ve noticed that much of our pasture grass is reed canary-grass. This grass grows well here, but quickly grows tall and stemmy. As our animals graze, they delight in the young leaves, but stems are much more dry and lack nutrition. Each grass has its purpose though. The long stems of reed canary-grass are well suited for bedding – which makes it an unsurprising citizen of these pastures that were once managed to provide bedding for the dairy barn on the ridge.

Rather than producing stems to cut, dry, and transport to a barn, we want a pasture that provides tasty and nutritious food for our grazing animals. To move our pasture from mattress factory to salad bar, we bought a seed mix of ryegrass, white clover and red clover. Ryegrass is a leafy alternative to reed canary-grass’s long stems. The clovers, being legumes, are high in protein and enrich our fertile marine soil with nitrogen so neighboring plants can better access the rich stores of other nutrients. Together they work to provide a balanced diet – tender grasses with carbs and sweet clover packed with protein – all while improving soil fertility.

Our animals and the other plants in our pasture would benefit from these newcomers, but the problem stands: how to get them into the pasture? To germinate, these seeds want to be under ¼ inch of soil. To achieve that, many farmers will use a drill seeder on their tractor to push seeds underground as they drive along their pasture.

Two visions of grassland flora: on left, dead reed canary-grass stems stand. On the right, a rich mix of clover and grass was planted a few years ago when the pasture was disturbed to put in a septic field.

Rather than invest in that expensive equipment and the fossil fuels needed to run it, we let nature do that work for us. When the snow has melted but the ground is still frozen, we simply spread seed over the pasture. Then, as April takes us from midwinter blizzards to balmy sunshine and back again, the freeze-thaw cycles are each day working our seeds into the soil. Drivers in Vermont are intimately familiar with how frost can heave and crack our roads (so too many historic barns), but this action is also, on a much smaller scale, what opens cracks in the soil to create homes for our new clover and ryegrass.

Next time you enjoy a balmy April afternoon with full knowledge that tomorrow will bring snow and polar wind, raise a glass with us to this season’s help with frost seeding.

Umbrella Project
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/socially-distant-bioblitz-series

April 5, 2020
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/socially-distant-bioblitz-4-5-2020

May 3, 2020
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/socially-distant-bioblitz-5-3-2020

May 24, 2020
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/socially-distant-bioblitz-5-24-2020

As of today (May 25th), the iNaturalist MVFN project captured 82 observations of common spring ephemerals in Lanark County. The left/top chart below shows the distribution of observations by species. The chart on the right/bottom shows the number of species observed by members of the project. Thanks to all for contributing to science, and showing the beauty of Lanark County in early spring!
... denisag2

Observations by species (May 25th)
Colt's Foot 7
Bloodroot 9
Dutchman's Breeches 6
Hepatica, Sharp-lobed 5
Hepatica, Round-lobed 2
Trout Lily, Yellow 8
Red Trillium 10
Large White Trillium 13
Common Blue Violet 7
Carolina Spring-Beauty 8
Marsh Marigold 7
Total = 82

# of species observed (May 25th)
ken_j_allison 8
windstonefarms 4
denisag2 11
karendthompson 8
memmurray 6
chrisbab 4
jronthetay 3
zapdogster 2
davidseburn 2
jean1941 2
pipsomac 1
robinottawa 1
rlongair 2

Jeder Student lädt sein eigenes Collection Project hoch

У нас 2300 видов. Поздравляем всех и новых удачных находок!

Need an ID for a tree?
Trees are not a good taxonomic group. But most people can identify a tree as a tree, even if they dont have a clue as to what class, family, genus or species it is.
So if you have a tree that needs an ID, just add this project to your observation (no need to add any identification if you do so, just leave the ID blank when adding your observations).

If you are able to help us ID trees (let us face it: there are experts, specialists, enthusiasts and gardeners who know their trees backwards, and field guides, apps and articles devoted to trees), then this link will open up the identification tool to help you manage the process (without flooding you with trees that have already been identified). Click on and bookmark these links:
(first time identifiers)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual&project_id=trees-of-south-africa
(regular identifiers)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Ccasual&project_id=trees-of-south-africa

Thanks for your help

📢 Hledáte s námi letos pražské denní motýly? Pak právě pro Vás vyhlašujeme soutěž, a to hned ve dvou kategoriích:
🏆 o největší počet uložených pozorování,
🏆 o největší počet zaznamenaných druhů.

Oba výherce čekají 4 vstupenky do Národního muzea a speciální návštěva běžně nepřístupných entomologických depozitářů 😍.
Výsledky soutěže zveřejníme v lednu 2021.

Pssst! Možná ještě vyhlásíme zvláštní kategorii o nejpřekvapivější místo nálezu 😉.

#HledejtePražskéMotýly

I found all except for the garland daisies at my grandpa's campground. My grandpa owns Ocean Cove Campground north of the city Jenner where I spent my Memorial Day weekend. His campground is right on the cliffs of Northern California backed by a woodland forest. These specific plants were found growing naturally throughout the campground and around his house and cabins. The climate there is pretty mediterranean and is warm throughout the day with an ocean breeze and cools of immensely in the night. I found the garland daisies in a new open spot where I live. I found these growing in a wildflower patch near the bay.

☘ Итоги 1/16 Кубка опубликованы! Камчатка нас обошла по интересному показателю: общее число наблюдателей на Камчатке меньше, чем в Югре (68 vs. 74). Вы сами понимаете, что это скорее плюс, а не минус (показывает рост молодой команды, как и было предсказано в комиксе). А поэтому не будем расстраиваться ;)

☘Подробнее о результатах соревнования в нашей паре (Югра vs. Камчатка):
Число наблюдений в Югре 678 / на Камчатке 767
Число видов в Югре 31 / на Камчатке 24
Число наблюдателей в Югре 75 / на Камчатке 68

Подробнее о результатах соревнования по всем регионам и сетка следующего этапа:
https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/36425-rezultaty-1-16-finala-komandnogo-kubka-rossii-po-fotofiksatsii-rasteniy-2020-goda-setka-1-8-finala#activity_comment_4688542

Немного позже проанализируем список видов, описанный во время Кубка коллективным усилием. Спасибо всем за участие!

В качестве иллюстрации - наблюдение Александра Корепанова (единственное, получившее лайк). Башмачок капельный, целая полянка, цветет в это самое время где-то в районе Ханты-Мансийска. Обратите внимание, что точные координаты наблюдения скрыты наблюдателем (вместо этого стоит несколько координат в радиусе 30 км). Эта функция специально создана для редких и охраняемых видов и ей можно пользоваться всегда, когда вы волнуетесь за судьбу объекта наблюдения.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47124699