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then u
to mark it as flowers buddingp
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then r
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then n
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We're up several hundred annotations, now to 14,639 Illinois observations annotated with flowering phenology! Thanks everyone!
Thanks for the brilliant idea! We are doing the same thing here in Vermont now. https://vtecostudies.org/blog/join-our-spring-wildflower-phenology-annotation-blitz/. I had to use your "spring wildflower" list to make it easy for users here to find most of them here too as I didn't have time to make one for Vermont, or even know where to begin to be honest! Thanks again!
Awesome! We've definitely got a lot of floral overlap so the list should work on a pinch. :) Happy spring!
Thanks to all the annotators we now have 15,279 observations of Illinois plants marked as budding, flowering, or fruiting! Over a thousand annotations added in just the past few days! Here's a link to keep track: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=35&term_id=12
There's no easy way to find out who's helping out with this effort (no leaderboards like there are with IDs and observations), but just want to call out a few people I've noticed adding annotations - apologies if I've missed you!
Thanks so much to: @davidenrique @eattaway92 @k2018lena @kkucera @missgreen @peterwchen @tsn @upular and more!
Thanks!
So... I have a question. Is there some sort of policy about what flower budding vs. flowering really means? Specifically, what should we do with composite flowers like in the asteraceae or the araceae? I've been treating the entire inflorescence as the "flower" even though I'm well aware that the entire inflorescence is made up of dozens/hundreds of little flowers. I figure that's the way to go, but is there an official stand on this?
There are some basic "phenophase" definitions here:
https://www.usanpn.org/files/shared/files/Plant%20and%20Animal%20Phenophase%20Definition%20Supplement.pdf#page=8
For composite flowers I consider the individual flowers, you can have the ray petals/ligules present and showy, but the tiny flowers have not yet reached anthesis.
Similar commonly confused cases are plants with showy bracts, like Cornus florida. The bright white bracts may be visible, but the flowers haven't yet opened.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/60118 (budding)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24690447 (flowering and budding)
For many situations it can be difficult to tell from a typical iNat photo which phase(s) it's in.
I just realized this morning we now have a "no evidence of flowering" option under "plant phenology"!! So we can sort beautiful leaf shots, sprouts, etc, out from the un-annotated photos that might have flowers, buds, or fruits!
Yes! Super happy they finally added that.
holy heck it's up from 15k to >26k observations annotated with flowering phenology in Illinois! what a nice dataset
I knocked out Mertensia virginica (at least I had as of a few days ago) . Not sure I really got them all right, so will gladly change if someone suggests different. I'm going for the Dicentra cucullaria now. I am tackling the flowers that make me smile and what is there not to like about little pants hanging out on the clothes line?
wow, we're up to 41k annotated now! very cool
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