Illinois Botanists Big Year 2021 Results!
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Abel Kinser (@abelkinser) with 853 species!
As of 16 January 2022, @abelkinser had 1,581 Research Grade observations of 853 plant species in Illinois for 2021. Congrats!
2021 Illinois Plant Stats
6,741 observers
86,910 Research Grade observations of plants - 41% by people who had joined this project
2,089 species
2,010 identifiers
The Illinois Botanists Big Year is an annual friendly competition of the Illinois Native Plant Society to see how many species you can find in a single year in Illinois. The main goals of the project are to spark discovery in people of any age and experience, encouraging them to stop to look at plants they might have otherwise have passed by, as well as to create connections and build camaraderie among plant enthusiasts, share knowledge, and contribute to a growing database of the flora of Illinois. The year 2021 was its fifth year: 132 people joined the project.
The Illinois Botanists Big Year only looks at Research Grade observations (those that have identifications that have been confirmed by at least one other person), a rough tool to ensure a level of data quality. For 2021, only 48% of the qualifying observations of plants have reached Research Grade in Illinois so far.
Big thanks to the hundreds of people from around the world who dedicate so much effort to helping sort and identify Illinois plant observations, particularly @abelkinser this year, who has made almost twice as many IDs as anyone else, and the folks who made a huge push within the past couple weeks @j_p3 @tkoffel @maryah @nellse @brothernorbert @t_e_d @cwarneke and others! Without the dedicated work of so many identifiers iNaturalist would not function.
Compared to our last identification update:
| Date | January 1st | January 10th | January 16th |
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| Unknowns (no ID at all) | 3,768 | 1,941 | 44 - heck yeah (help identify) |
| Plants | 81,720 Research Grade and 96,970 Need ID | 83,524 Research Grade and 96,807 Needs ID | 86,910 Research Grade and 94,082 Needs ID (help identify) |
| Needs ID at rank family or coarser | 10,101 | 10,280 | 10,940 - increased in part because so many "unknowns" were coarsely identified as plants (help refine) |
| Needs ID obs by ILBBY 2021 participants | 22,572 | 21,937 | 21,380 (help identify) |
| Identifiers | 2,732 people. Of those, 308 people have made 50 or more IDs on IL plants observed in 2021, 197 made 100 or more IDs, 75 made 300 or more IDs, and 21 people made 1,000 or more IDs. | 2,755 people. Of those, 311 people have made 50 or more IDs on IL plants observed in 2021, 200 made 100 or more IDs, 76 made 300 or more IDs, and 21 people made 1,000 or more IDs. | 2,767 people. Of those, 311 people have made 50 or more IDs on IL plants observed in 2021, 201 made 100 or more IDs, 82 made 300 or more IDs, and 24 people made 1,000 or more IDs. |
Most Species
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@abelkinser – 853
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@mmasell – 808
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@elfaulkner – 785
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@adriansydor – 723
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@dennis_nyberg – 705
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@brdnrdr – 630
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@sedge – 629
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@danielpohl – 625
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@sanguinaria33 - 602
- @wildlandblogger – 586
Most Observations
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@brdnrdr – 2,914
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@johnhboldt – 1,998
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@abelkinser – 1,581
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@danielpohl– 1,486
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@mmasell – 1,416
- @wildlandblogger– 1,312
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@sedge – 1,286
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@elfaulkner – 1,211
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@dennis_nyberg – 1,132
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@grantfessler – 1,110
Most IDs
Most identifications for other people (IDs on plant observations in Illinois in 2021):
- @abelkinser – 11,296
- @j_p3 - 6,525
- @bouteloua – 5,872
- @adriansydor – 5,098
- @elfaulkner – 3,170
- @grantfessler– 2,525
- @tkoffel – 2,477
- @sedge – 2,455
- @wildlandblogger – 2,298
- @greensnake879 – 2,283
Most "Improving" IDs
The number of times they were first to make the ID that the community subsequently agreed with (improving IDs on plant observations in Illinois in 2021):
- @abelkinser – 1,238
- @j_p3 – 1,003
- @bouteloua – 954
- @elfaulkner – 501
- @adriansydor – 486
- @k2018lena – 420
- @greensnake879 – 385
- @sedge – 394
- @wildlandblogger – 309
- @rynxs – 306
Niches
The Sedgehead: Most species in the genus Carex: @sanguinaria33 with 55 species!
The Grassmaster: Most species within the family Poaceae: @abelkinser with 66 species!
The Compositor: Most species within the family Asteraceae: @elfaulkner with 122 species!
The Sporophyte: Most species outside of flowering plants, Magnoliophyta): @abelkinser with 71 species!
The Most-observed Plant
Again - Trillium recurvatum, prairie trillium, with 1,124 RG observations.
Observation by @julieu in Winnebago County
The 100 sp. Club
Botanizers who made Research Grade observations of over 100 species of plants in Illinois in 2021 (not restricted to people who joined the project): @abelkinser @adriansydor @benzerante @big_al_xo @bob375 @bouteloua @brandoncorder @brdnrdr @canelasincera @carolt-80 @caryaovata @cathyph @chartreuse @christinebosacki @cmidden @crwrcwamt @d_coulter @danielpohl @dennis_nyberg @dorwageld @dziomber @eattaway92 @elfaulkner @ewarden @grantfessler @greensnake879 @hazelnutman @hortusmax @illinoisbotanizer @irmela @isoetes @j_p3 @jackassgardener @jj_mcluckie @joelmc @johncebula @johnhboldt @jonidenker @jophophora @k2018lena @k3outdoors @karibou20 @kkucera @laniarius @marensr @mattnugent @maureenclare @micahbowman @mmasell @mn2010 @mrostrowski @mwistrand @outdoorsie @parksisters @paulroots @pfshannon @prairie_fairy @prairiebeeman @r_vanherik @randall228 @rarecatsnake @redadmiral98 @reduviidae @ruthmetterhausen @rynxs @samwilhelm @sanguinaria33 @sara_614 @schizachrium @sedge @seversondells @sidchan282 @skrentnyjeff @ssinn @swgpotter @taco2000 @tom_lazar @tony695 @tonyg @ungulateunion @vnevirkov @wildlandblogger @wildlifeduke @woodridgejeff @zoology123Species New to Illinois on iNat
Dozens of species new to iNat in Illinois this year. A few listed below:
- Non-flowering plants
- Monocots excluding Poales
- Poales (grasses, sedges, rushes, and friends)
- Plants in Asterales (sunflowers and friends)
- Plants in Lamiales (mints and friends)
- Plants in Rosales (roses and friends)
- Plants in Fabales (peas and friends)
- Plants in Caryophyllales (pinks and friends)
- Plants in Malpighiales (nances and friends)
- Plants in Ranunculales (buttercups and friends)
- Plants in Gentiales (gentians and friends)
- Plants in Brassicales (mustards and friends)
- Plants in Apiales (carrots and friends)
- Plants in Fagales (beeches and friends)
- Plants in Boraginales (borages and friends)
- All other (eu)dicots except the groups above
Some Plant Pic Picks
Asclepias meadii (Mead's milkweed) by @abelkinser in Saline County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85159409
Ranunculus harveyi (Harvey's buttercup) by @nebseivad in Randolph County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73905996
Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) by @mmasell in DuPage County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74189202
Allium tricoccum (wild leek) fruits by @sedge in Vermilion County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68743197
Conopholis americana (bearcorn) by @elfaulkner in Lake County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80173562
Physcomitrium pyriforme (bladder moss) by @mmasell in Lee County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73792802
Asimina triloba (pawpaw) buds by @grantfessler in McLean County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72806824
Valerianella umbilicata (navel-shaped cornsalad with syrphid buddy) by @sanguinaria33 in Kankakee County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/87326934
Lupinus perennis (wild lupine) by @bonsaisai in Lee County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/79686615
Shepherdia canadensis (buffalo-berry) by @psweet in Lake County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72450354
Liatris cylindracea (cylindrical blazingstar) by @jingyilu in Cook County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/87662442
Hymenocallis occidentalis (woodland spiderlily) by @bob375 in Massac County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89413415
Hibiscus laevis (halberd rosemallow) by @prairie_fairy in Champaign County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/94388972
Verbesina alternifolia (wingstem) by @staceygluchman in Kane County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91923596
Rhexia virginica (Virginia meadowbeauty) by @joshklostermann in Lee County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100196198
Silene ovata (ovate catchfly) by @illinoisbotanizer in Hardin County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96837154
Pteridium aquilinum (bracken fern) by @maureenclare in Lake County https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91342613
happy botanizing,
—@bouteloua (cassi saari)
Comentarios
and finally...if you'd like to participate in 2022, don't forget to join the 2022 project!
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/illinois-botanists-big-year-2022/join
Thanks for all the hard work, Cassi!
You are welcome! Thank you very much @bouteloua !! I am currently having a look at Convolvulaceae in Illinois from the past years that still need ID. :-)
Thank you @bouteloua for running this awesome project! And thanks to all the generous ID'ers out there. Has there been any talk of starting local offshoots, like a Chicago Wilderness Region botanists big year? Would anyone be interested in participating in such a thing?
Wow, what beautiful photos!! And, cassi, yes, huge thanks for all your efforts to keep this project productive and fun!!
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