Join us, as our project partner The Trust for Public Land and Friends of the QueensWay take the lead in hos...

Apiaceae, also known as umbellifers, is a family of plants containing many well-known edible species like F...

American Eels

Atlantic Coast Leopard Frogs

Although Milkweeds (Asclepias) have classically been associated with the valuable and endangered Monarch Bu...

Wetlands play a crucial role in supporting wildlife, safeguarding coastal communities, and mitigating the u...

Bald Eagles

Basidiomycota is a large, diverse class of Fungi that includes more than 31,000 known living species. It in...

February is a great month to refine your winter botany skills by learning to recognize important dormant-se...

Data capture for May 12-13 Bioblitz at Blue Heron Park, towards generating a species list for future educat...

Bryophytes are small, non-vascular, spore-bearing plants which include mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. T...

Beech leaf disease (BLD), which is associated with a foliar nematode species, Litylenchus crenatae, causes ...

Diamondback Terrapins

Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis) is a native, disturbance-adapted wildflower that can grow up to...

Plant galls are abnormal growths of plant tissues that are caused by external organisms such as insects, mi...

Before the trees start leafing out and shading the forest floor, some plants get a jumpstart on the season ...

The yellow blooms of Goldenrod are a familiar sight to many New Yorkers this time of year. However, there i...

Many familiar plants such as Lamb’s Quarter (Chenopodium album), Redroot Amaranth (Amaranthus retroflexus),...

Horseshoe Crabs

Hudson River Water Watch ,Water quality reports, biodiversity, wildlife ,organisms, invasive species reports

This project is intended to track two specific invasive plant species that have negative impacts on New Yor...

Rubus (Rosaceae) is a large, diverse genus that includes raspberries and blackberries. These plants, which ...

Lichens are unique organisms formed by a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae or cyanobacteria. T...

Maple (Acer spp.) is an ecologically and economically important genus of trees that have distinctive palmat...

The Mustard family (Brassicaceae) is a large, diverse, and economically important group. They are identifia...

A collection project focusing on pollinators. This blitz was held June 22, 2019 across NYC, NY. To see our ...

WildflowerNYC is a campaign to restore the connection between New Yorkers and our wild flora by voting for ...

RED vs lead in nyc

Urban bee watch includes all bees including urban honeybees . Information data on numbers sighted , locatio...

Piping Plovers

Parthenocissus is a genus of tendrillate vines in the grape family, with three species found in New York Ci...

Red Hook Youth Farmers + community will begin to document all the bountiful life that surrounds the farms i...

River Herring

Since it was first spotted in New York City in 2020, the Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) has quickl...

temp proj

Macaulay student visit to The Ramble in Central Park on 10.17.22

New York City is home to diverse plants that continue to paint the landscape green well after much of it ha...

Insects form the biological foundation in which our ecosystems rely. Many species that have overwintered em...