"First Flowers" mini-project

I'm starting a mini-project to document the first time each plant species flowers in my area. This includes both naturalized plants and landscape/garden plants, so long as the latter overwintered (and thus were affected by winter) or else were planted from seed. I am not including anything that was germinated inside (seed starts or plants purchased at a store) since they don't have as much of a story to tell about the winter. I am definitely including invasive species and other introduced species though.

I am only doing this in places I go nearly every day (home and the forest near where I work) so I don't miss things for very long.

If you would like to join in, please do! Just give the relevant observations the tag 'FirstFlowers'

Posted on 18 de abril de 2016, 05:13 PM by charlie charlie

Observações

Fotos / Sons

Observador

charlie

Data

Março 2016

Descrição

First flowers of the year. Will cold blast this weekend kill them?

Etiquetas

Fotos / Sons

Observador

charlie

Data

Abril 2016

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Fotos / Sons

What

Narcisos (Género Narcissus)

Observador

charlie

Data

Abril 2016

Descrição

probably were planted at some point, 'naturalized' in that they come back from year to year without any particular care. I should probably divide them or something. These are the little dwarf variety that are maybe 6 inches tall. Didn't see any pollinators on them yet.

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Fotos / Sons

What

Dente-de-Leão (Taraxacum officinale)

Observador

charlie

Data

Abril 18, 2016 12:43 PM EDT

Etiquetas

Fotos / Sons

Observador

charlie

Data

Abril 18, 2016 02:56 PM -05

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Comentários

Hi Charlie, I love this idea. I keep trying to get better at identifying plants as they first show up and then watch how they develop.

Publicado por chauncey quase 8 anos antes

I definitely find a lot of little seedlings and have no idea what they are, another fun use of iNaturalist is to document the little seedlings in a place you visit very often like your backyard, then come back and re document when they are bigger.

Publicado por charlie quase 8 anos antes

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