"First Flowers" mini-project
I'm starting a mini-project to document the first time each plant species flowers in my area. This includes both naturalized plants and landscape/garden plants, so long as the latter overwintered (and thus were affected by winter) or else were planted from seed. I am not including anything that was germinated inside (seed starts or plants purchased at a store) since they don't have as much of a story to tell about the winter. I am definitely including invasive species and other introduced species though.
I am only doing this in places I go nearly every day (home and the forest near where I work) so I don't miss things for very long.
If you would like to join in, please do! Just give the relevant observations the tag 'FirstFlowers'
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charlieDescription
First flowers of the year. Will cold blast this weekend kill them?
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Daffodils (Genus Narcissus)Observer
charlieDescription
probably were planted at some point, 'naturalized' in that they come back from year to year without any particular care. I should probably divide them or something. These are the little dwarf variety that are maybe 6 inches tall. Didn't see any pollinators on them yet.
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Hi Charlie, I love this idea. I keep trying to get better at identifying plants as they first show up and then watch how they develop.
I definitely find a lot of little seedlings and have no idea what they are, another fun use of iNaturalist is to document the little seedlings in a place you visit very often like your backyard, then come back and re document when they are bigger.
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