A Year in Review

It has been one year since the creation of this project, and a lot has been done with the curation of mints from the Continental US and Canada. The total number of verifiable observations in this project has increased from ~346k to ~508k, and the percentage of research grade has also increased from 71.93% to 76.48%. That's a huge deal! And it's thanks to lot of great curatorial work by a couple hundred people in the last year.

Some individuals have put in hundreds of hours to ID species they know and care about.  @alan_prather and @pynklynx have been plugging away at Monarda, @polemoniaceae has been cleaning up Scutellaria, @igor_kuzmin has added IDs to just about every Glechoma observation, @kschoon is sharing his Trichostema dissertation knowledge, @brothernorbert takes care of Eurasian non-natives like Ajuga, and @moritz3 made a huge impact on Lamium species. Many others have put in incredible amounts of work on other groups too, and I'd love to acknowledge the rest of the top 100 IDers here:

@jrebman @sambiology @grnleaf @graysquirrel @else @mcaple @erininmd @tsn @moritz3 @jayhorn @matt_g @cosmiccat @connlindajo @vandalsen @popb25 @lanechaffin @aguilita @joshua_tx @catchang @csledge @kai_schablewski @wdvanhem @brent_baker @matthias55 @franpfer @adiamond @lfelliott @nathantaylor @peakaytea @tminatbe @bouteloua @alabamaplants @sadawolk @apgarm @pucak @ghostburglar @cwbarrows @tlit46 @andyjones1 @conboy @glmory @oxalismtp @esummerbell @srall @arboretum_amy @maryah @oceanicwilderness @j_appleget @sedgequeen @serpophaga @ajwright @wildlandblogger @corey22 @tkoffel @aarongunnar @prairie_rambler @kathrynwells333 @jim_keesling @charlie @jrichardabbott @seanblaney @stevejones @gwynethgovers @nana10 @evan8 @marykeim @alan_prather @philipwoodscc @je9h @sterrett @ken_j_allison @sganley @ericpo1 @txlorax @raymie @schoenitz @cyndie42 @mjpapay @eknuth @suz @marthar @cedric_lee @lcplinske @alisonnorthup @choess @rymcdaniel @ronstephens @borisbolshakov @johnwampler @bacchusrock @katermorgan @fernslu @rednat @birgitknorr @ronvanderhoff @kueda

Thanks for all the work you do, and I hope you can continue to improve these observations in 2022!

If you want some ideas for chipping away at this collection, check out previous posts or click on the links below.

• 4,706 observations stuck at family level.
• 605 observations stuck at subfamily level.
• 2,287 observations stuck at tribe or subtribe level.
• 41,870 observations stuck at genus level.
• 69,864 observations stuck at species level.
• Fishing for mints in the sea of confusion! See if you can chase clues to find mints in these observations.

Posted on 15 de janeiro de 2022, 02:55 AM by alex_abair