There are 47 people with over 100 plant species observed in Illinois in 2018. That's kind of amazing!
Last year around this time there were only 22 people and the previous year just 10 people.
Check out the growth and spread of field botany on iNaturalist in Illinois in the past few years:
pretty exciting!
cassi
Late summer is a-go!
iNat updated Collection projects recently so that now if you are a member of this Illinois Botanists Big Year project, you'll see a little icon on the righthand side of all your observations that fit the project rules. (FYI @skrentnyjeff :) )
Current Illinois Botanists Big Year Stats:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/illinois-botanists-big-year-2018 (help identify)
Recently-observed Favorites
Seeds of white baneberry (Actaea pachypoda) by @andrewhipp
Agapostemon(?) coming in for a landing on pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) by @sanguinaria33
Sheeny post-rain pawpaw (Asimina triloba) leaves by @elfaulkner -- anyone have some coming into fruit? They're getting ready up here in the north!
Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) in bloom by @sanguinaria33
Below again are links to what we as a group have found in 2018 so far compared to what has been documented on iNaturalist before 2018. The lists in the links below will update automatically as people continue adding observations throughout the year. iNaturalist's compare tool limits us to check 500 taxa at a time, so these are broken into several chunks.
▶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)
▶All other (eu)dicots except the groups above
See what species you haven't observed yet in Illinois with the following link. Just change it from my username (bouteloua) to yours:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?hrank=species&place_id=35&taxon_id=47125&unobserved_by_user_id=bouteloua&view=species
-cassi
