יומן של Biodiversity of Kathyrn Abbey Hanna Park

I’ve decided to start using journal entries to provide information about various species found in the park and how to identify them. I’ll be doing this when I’ve got time and not on any particular schedule, but hopefully pretty often. Also, if you want to write a taxon spotlight for the project journal, please message me! I am not knowledgeable about every taxon found in the park, so having someone else cover the gaps in my knowledge would be very useful. Depending on your preference, I can either post it with credit or add you to a management position in the project so you can make journal posts yourself.

Today, our spotlight is on Woodwardia areolata, the netted chain fern! This is the only Woodwardia species in Florida to have dimorphic fronds and is sometimes put in the monotypic genus Lorinseria instead. The sterile frond of Woodwardia areolata is green and it is pinnatifid with a distinctly winged rachis. This winged rachis is the trait I look for the most when identifying this species if the fertile frond isn’t visible. You can see in this image how the leaf blade forms a line along the edge of the rachis instead of ending at the end of each pinna.

The other identifying feature you can look for with this species is its fertile frond. It is dark brown and curled up, looking pretty different from anything else I’ve seen in the park. These aren’t always present, but they’re a good identifying feature when they are present.

Finally, here are the observations of this species so far in the park! I couldn't figure out how to embed observations, so if anyone knows, please let me know. In the meantime, there's a link.

Hi everyone! Because I felt it would allow people to join projects pertaining to their area of interest and therefore increase the chances of everything getting IDed, I have added several new projects and put them in an umbrella project with this one. These include taxon-specific collection projects for people to join if they only want to see a particular type of organism, as well as a project for unconfirmed species, created in hopes of getting these IDed ASAP so they can be added to the list.

You can access all park-related projects at the umbrella project here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/kathryn-abbey-hanna-park

If you create your own project related to Hanna Park, it can be added to the umbrella project, too, just let me know!

Hello, everyone! I'm excited to have created this project today, and I want to share some thoughts that I felt didn't really belong in the description.

I recently had a class where we identified plants at Hanna Park, and I really fell in love with the area. When I looked it up on iNaturalist to see what others had observed there, though, I saw that it wasn't listed as an official place, so I made a place page for it myself. I had kind of thought this would be automatically filled out with the species in the park and information about them, but it wasn't - so I added as many as I could from the research-grade observations that have been made in the park and would like to call on the iNaturalist community to help me continue filling it out!

I have already been amazed by the diversity in the park when looking through research-grade observations to add to the place checklist, but it's clear that there are still many taxa that are in the park but haven't yet been documented there. If you notice an observation has recently been brought up to research-grade, please consider checking to see if that species is already included in the checklist - if it isn't, add it!

Another thing that would be really useful is if people could add information about the establishment means and/or occurrence status of organisms in the park, as this is seriously lacking. Please only add this information if you're confident it's accurate, though!