Projects from Manatee

2021: S/M Counties CNC icon

2021: S/M Counties CNC

Welcome to Sarasota and Manatee Counties joining the world wide City Nature Challenge! This page is for tho...
Apocrita/Brachycera from Feb-Mar in SW FL icon

Apocrita/Brachycera from Feb-Mar in SW FL

Local observations of Apocrita and Brachycera from late February through late March
Asters All Around - September and October 2021 S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest icon

Asters All Around - September and October 2021 S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest

The aster, or sunflower family (Asteraceae), is among the largest flowering plant families, with more than ...
Biodiversity of the Sarasota Bay Watershed icon

Biodiversity of the Sarasota Bay Watershed

This project focuses on the biodiversity of the different terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems found along th...
Check Your Boots - March S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest icon

Check Your Boots - March S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest

The official state tree of Florida since 1970, the cabbage palm, or sabal palm, (Sabal palmetto) is easy to...
City Nature Challenge 2023: Sarasota and Manatee Counties icon

City Nature Challenge 2023: Sarasota and Manatee Counties

Welcome to Sarasota and Manatee Counties joining the world wide City Nature Challenge for 2023! This page i...
CNC 2022: S/M OLD icon

CNC 2022: S/M OLD

Welcome to S/M Counties joining the world wide City Nature Challenge! This page is for those uploading obse...
Digging Deeper  - S/M EcoFlora January EcoQuest icon

Digging Deeper - S/M EcoFlora January EcoQuest

For this month’s EcoQuest, Digging Deeper, we are exploring the connection between Florida’s indigenous peo...
Epiphyte Survey icon

Epiphyte Survey

Surveying Epiphytes in Manatee County.
Finding Ferns - January and February S/M Ecoflora Ecoquest icon

Finding Ferns - January and February S/M Ecoflora Ecoquest

The Sarasota Manatee EcoFlora Project is kicking off the 2022 New Year with our next EcoQuest, Finding Fern...
FISC-ally Responsible Flora - September & October S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest icon

FISC-ally Responsible Flora - September & October S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest

“FISC-ally Responsible Flora” - September & October Sarasota Manatee EcoFlora Ecoquest Hello EcoFl...
Fish of Southwest Florida icon

Fish of Southwest Florida

Guide to species of fish found within the area collectively known as Southwest Florida. The 8 counties incl...
Flora of coastal heritage sites of Sarasota-Manatee icon

Flora of coastal heritage sites of Sarasota-Manatee

This project is a pilot for citizen science efforts to document the natural heritage of locations with reco...
Flora of New College of Florida icon

Flora of New College of Florida

This project focuses on the botanical diversity of the New College of Florida Campus. Participants are stud...
Flora UnderFoot  - S/M EcoFlora Challenge July 2020 icon

Flora UnderFoot - S/M EcoFlora Challenge July 2020

Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora's EcoQuest challenge for July is Flora UnderFoot, looking into the small plants p...
Florida's Fantastic Fifteen - S/M EcoFlora Challenge September 2020 icon

Florida's Fantastic Fifteen - S/M EcoFlora Challenge September 2020

Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora's EcoQuest challenge for September 2020 will be based on the popular local public...
Floridensis: The Anoles icon

Floridensis: The Anoles

The collection assembles and provides all observations for all lizards of Genus Anolis throughout peninsula...
Floridensis: The Watersnakes icon

Floridensis: The Watersnakes

The collection lists all observations for non-venomous watersnakes of Genus Nerodia throughout peninsular F...
Fungus of South Florida icon

Fungus of South Florida

Fungus only... of Research Grade in 18 South Florida Counties: Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Desoto, Glades...
Gazing at Glassworts - August 2021 S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest icon

Gazing at Glassworts - August 2021 S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest

Inspired by the glass show currently on display at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, In Dialogue with Natu...
Go Fig or Go Home - S/M EcoFlora November EcoQuest icon

Go Fig or Go Home - S/M EcoFlora November EcoQuest

Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora's November EcoQuest is Go Fig or Go Home! One of the most tropical sights that Fl...
Going for Morning Glory - July & August S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest icon

Going for Morning Glory - July & August S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest

The theme for our July-August EcoQuest is Convolvulaceae, otherwise known as the morning glory family! This...
Heartland CISMA EDRR-Project icon

Heartland CISMA EDRR-Project

Heartland CISMA EDRR and Watch Lists Project - DRAFT This project will pull data related to the proposed E...
Home for the Hollydays - S/M EcoFlora December EcoQuest icon

Home for the Hollydays - S/M EcoFlora December EcoQuest

Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora's December EcoQuest is Home for the HollyDays! Holly trees are attractive native...
Into the Night! - S/M EcoFlora Challenge June 2020 icon

Into the Night! - S/M EcoFlora Challenge June 2020

Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora's EcoQuest challenge for June 2020 will be INTO THE NIGHT! Inspired by Selby Gard...
Just Dune It - July S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest icon

Just Dune It - July S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest

This month at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens we are opening We Dream a World: African American Landscape P...
Leaping into Lilies - June S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest icon

Leaping into Lilies - June S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest

Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionism, an avid painter documenting many people, places, the pa...
Living on the Edge -S/M EcoFlora Challenge August 2020 icon

Living on the Edge -S/M EcoFlora Challenge August 2020

Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora's EcoQuest challenge for August 2020 will be Living on the Edge, focusing on fres...
Looking for Love - S/M Ecoflora February Ecoquest icon

Looking for Love - S/M Ecoflora February Ecoquest

It's February and that means love is in the air, or more accurately for our Sarasota-Manatee February Ecoqu...
Magnificent Magoliales - March and April 2022 S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest icon

Magnificent Magoliales - March and April 2022 S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest

This month's Sarasota Manatee EcoFlora Ecoquest will cover the order of plants Magnoliales and last from Ma...
Microalgae of the Northern Gulf of Mexico and Estuaries icon

Microalgae of the Northern Gulf of Mexico and Estuaries

Phytoplankton observations along the Northern Gulf of Mexico including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alab...
Monarchs and Milkweed - S/M Ecoflora May Ecoquest icon

Monarchs and Milkweed - S/M Ecoflora May Ecoquest

The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is an easily recognizable and beloved butterfly species in North A...
Mustard Madness! May and June S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest icon

Mustard Madness! May and June S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest

Most of us are familiar with the sight and taste of cabbage, broccoli, kale, radishes, turnips, and mustard...
Oakey Pokey - S/M EcoFlora October EcoQuest icon

Oakey Pokey - S/M EcoFlora October EcoQuest

Welcome to October's or better said Oaktober's monthly Sarasota Manatee Ecoquest, the Oakey Poakey! This ch...
Plants that Pop! - S/M EcoFlora April Ecoquest icon

Plants that Pop! - S/M EcoFlora April Ecoquest

In a nod to the Roy Lichtenstein exhibit at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Downtown Campus, April’s EcoQuest...
Sarasota & Manatee 2020 City Nature Challenge, FL USA icon

Sarasota & Manatee 2020 City Nature Challenge, FL USA

Get ready for April 24-27, and join us on our first ever, Sarasota & Manatee City Nature Challenge in 2...
Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora Project (FL, USA) icon

Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora Project (FL, USA)

Selby Gardens invites you to join our effort to document the diversity and distribution of plants of SARASO...
Set Sail: Introduction to Field Ecology icon

Set Sail: Introduction to Field Ecology

This project focuses on the biodiversity of the different terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems found along th...
Southeastern Florida Peninsula icon

Southeastern Florida Peninsula

Includes the southern 2/3 or so of Florida.
Southwest Florida Natives icon

Southwest Florida Natives

Native species of Southwest Florida.
Tilly Tally Two! November and December 2021 S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest icon

Tilly Tally Two! November and December 2021 S/M EcoFlora Ecoquest

For our November and December EcoQuests we are reintroducing the Tilly Tally, an EcoQuest that took place ...
Tilly Tally! - S/M EcoFlora Challenge May 2020 icon

Tilly Tally! - S/M EcoFlora Challenge May 2020

Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora's EcoQuest challenge for May 2020 is the Tilly Tally! Test your skills at finding...
Utriculata in the S/M Project icon

Utriculata in the S/M Project

Used to monitor utriculata observations over time.
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