ILBBY 2022 April thru June


Cypripedium reginae (showy lady's slipper) by @big_al_xo in Lake County
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124931488

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, 95 people have joined the project.

Illinois Plants on iNat, thru Q2 2022 Stats

3,816 observers
38,304 Research Grade observations of plants (32% by people who had joined this project)
1,651 species
1,575 identifiers (of all IL plant obs in 2022)

Most species

As of July 10th. These stats only include people who have joined the project:

  1. @sedge - 650
  2. @grantfessler - 523
  3. @rynxs - 469
  4. @danielpohl - 462
  5. @sanguinaria33 - 386
  6. @prairie_fairy - 359
  7. @mrostrowski - 334
  8. @rarecatsnake - 278
  9. @dennis_nyberg - 274

How are we doing on identifications?

Stats April 9th, 2022 July 10th, 2022
Unknowns (no ID at all) 2022: 113
All-time: 237
2022: 5,568
All-time: 5,792
Help identify observations with no identification at all
% Needs ID (of verifiable) 2022: 37% (3,168)
All-time: 36% (220,420)
2022: 53% (44,282)
All-time: 41% (258,474)
Help identify Needs ID observations
Needs ID obs by ILBBY 2022 participants 1,200 9,314
Help identify observations by people in the ILBBY 2022
Identifiers 477 people. Of those, 32 people have made 50 or more IDs, 18 made 100 or more IDs, 5 made 300 or more IDs, and no one has yet made made 1,000 or more IDs. 1,575 people. Of those, 148 people had made 50 or more IDs, 92 made 100 or more IDs, 35 made 300 or more IDs, and 7 have 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 documentations for the state on iNat such as this Dendrolycopodium hickeyi by @sedge (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/119170979), Dennstaedtia punctilobula by @rarecatsnake (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/115829479), Cypripedium reginae by @big_al_xo (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124931488), and Neottia bifolia by @illinoisbotanizer (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/116634787).


Plant pic picks

See all the most-faved photos of Q2 here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?iconic_taxa=Plantae&month=4,5,6&order_by=votes&place_id=35&year=2022


Mitella diphylla (bishop's cap) by @rarecatsnake in Jackson County
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112466443


Thalictrum dasycarpum (purple meadowrue) by @sara_614 in Kane County
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121271443


Nemophila aphylla (smallflower baby blue eyes) by @illinoisbotanizer in Massac County
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111580884


Pulsatilla nuttalliana (pasqueflower) by @danielpohl in Stephenson County
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118111572


Lackeya multiflora (Boykin's clusterpea) by @abelkinser in Massac County
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124706353


Lilium philadelphicum (prairie lily) by @airgjearth in Cook County
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123742312


Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern) by @joncollins in Coles County
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121032446

Illinois Native Plant Society news

happy botanizing,
@bouteloua (cassi saari)

הועלה ב-יולי 10, 2022 10:11 אחה"צ על ידי bouteloua bouteloua

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How do we get people to ID our observations? Do we need to tag IDers for our observations?

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