ILBBY 2022 January thru March
Hepatica acutiloba (sharp-lobed hepatica) by @rarecatsnake in Randolph County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109098811
The Illinois Botanists Big Year is an annual friendly competition of the Illinois Native Plant Society to see how many species you can find in a single year in Illinois. The main goals of the project are to spark discovery in people of any age and experience, encouraging them to stop to look at plants they might have otherwise have passed by, as well as to create connections and build camaraderie among plant enthusiasts, share knowledge, and contribute to a growing database of the flora of Illinois. The year 2022 is its seventh year. So far, 75 people have joined the project.
Illinois Plants on iNat, Q1 January-March 2022 Stats - view observations
481 observers
3,625 Research Grade observations of plants - 55% by people who had joined this project
584 species
344 identifiers
Most species
As of April 9th. Only includes people who joined the project:
- @sedge - 208
- @danielpohl - 199
- @grantfessler - 163
- @brdnrdr - 105
- @prairie_fairy - 100
- @rarecatsnake - 89
- @mrostrowski - 88
- @dennis_nyberg - 84
- @prairiebeeman - 77
- @adriansydor - 68
How are we doing on identifications?
Stats | April 9th, 2022 |
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Unknowns (no ID at all) | 2022: 113 All-time: 237 Help identify observations with no identification at all |
% Needs ID | 2022: 37% (3,168) All-time: 36% (220,420) Help identify Needs ID observations |
Needs ID obs by ILBBY 2022 participants | 1,200 Help identify observations by people in the ILBBY 2022 |
Identifiers | 477 people. Of those, 32 people have made 50 or more IDs on IL plants observed in 2022, 18 made 100 or more IDs, 5 made 300 or more IDs, and no one has yet made made 1,000 or more IDs. |
Make a custom hitlist
The links below show which species haven't yet been observed and verified to Research Grade on iNat in Illinois in 2022.
You can even edit the search parameters on these pages to make your own custom hitlist for 2022. Add &user_id=bouteloua
(use your username) to the end of the code in "In 2022" box. Learn more about editing search URLs at this page: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/search+urls If you're having trouble, comment below and I'd be happy to help out.
These links also highlight new finds for the state on iNat, such as this rustwort (Nowellia curvifolia) and this Scott's spleenwort (Asplenium × ebenoides) and this weft fern (Crepidomanes intricatum) all observed by @shawneenature.
- Non-flowering plants
- Monocots excluding Poales
- Poales (grasses, sedges, rushes, and friends)
- Plants in Asterales (sunflowers and friends)
- Plants in Lamiales (mints and friends)
- Plants in Rosales (roses and friends)
- Plants in Fabales (peas and friends)
- Plants in Caryophyllales (pinks and friends)
- Plants in Malpighiales (nances and friends)
- Plants in Ranunculales (buttercups and friends)
- Plants in Gentiales (gentians and friends)
- Plants in Brassicales (mustards and friends)
- Plants in Apiales (carrots and friends)
- Plants in Fagales (beeches and friends)
- Plants in Boraginales (borages and friends)
- All other (eu)dicots except the groups above
Plant pic picks
Monotropa uniflora (ghost pipes) by @prairiebeeman in Coles County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106340672
Carex aureolensis (golden cattail sedge) by @sedge in Champaign County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104895223
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage) by @chartreuse in Cook County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109711367
Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) by @kevin2028 in Kankakee County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108196410
Trillium nivale (snow trillium) by @joncollins in Coles County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108884227
Allium tricoccum (wild leeks) by @andrewhipp in DuPage County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109111118
Illinois Native Plant Society news
- Look at our new logo
- Check out upcoming native plant sales
- Join an INPS hike
- Save the date for the 2022 Annual Gathering, June 24th to 26th in the Bloomington-Normal area
- and consider becoming a member or renewing your membership!
happy botanizing,
—@bouteloua (cassi saari)