Botanist at the University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey. Member of Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board Endangered Species Technical Advisory Committee for vascular plants and the Illinois Invasive Species Council's Terrestrial Plants Committee.

Carex of Illinois and Surrounding States: the oval sedges. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088469

https://www.instagram.com/paullovesplants/

I am a botanist by training but love to take photos and identify anything and everything I see on my adventures.

Heatmap of iNaturalist observations: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/map?user_id=37031

Facebook groups and pages:
Midwest Graminoids - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1973307052956196/

My rarest observations:
https://elias.pschernig.com/wildflower/leastobserved.html?user=sedge

Illinois Native Plant Society - https://www.facebook.com/IllinoisPlants/

iNaturalist projects:
Illinois Threatened and Endangered Species
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/illinois-threatened-endangered-species-d4837b08-8d2c-4555-a3d3-cf3b3078028c

Flora of Champaign County, Illinois - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/map?project_id=flora-of-champaign-county-illinois#9/40.143/-88.112

Midwest Graminoids - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/midwest-graminoids

Sedges of Illinois - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/sedges-of-illinois

Grasses of Illinois - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/grasses-of-illinois

Orchids of Illinois - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/orchids-of-illinois

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