Be on the lookout for ____?

General
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This is one of those species that is of conservation concern in its native range, while being invasive in other parts of the world. Bobwhites have been introduced in several Caribbean islands.

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My BOLOs are general.

—Take a species…any species (but especially natives)…and record the first or last of the year…first Goose, first flower, first Monarch Butterfly. The species doesn’t matter, but the first/last does.

—Take a species…any species (but especially natives)…and record observations at the edges of its range, especially the farthest north and the farthest south. Farthest north Desert Iguana, farthest south Pika, farthest Argentine Black and White Tegu in Florida. Along this line, highest and lowest are also valuable, for example highest Pine Tree.

Why? These are the things that are rapidly changing due to climate change…where and when…that’s what I’m on the lookout for.

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Rare plants in east Texas. Keep all the observations from the day obscured so that people can’t figure out where you were. If you find any, I’ll give you the contact info for the scientists and conservationists who are looking for them.

Purple Bladderwort Utricularia purpurea

Chapman’s Fringed Orchid Platanthera chapmanii
Locations outside of Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve

Little Brown Jugs Asarum arifolium
The source population of the ones transplanted to WRNPP decades ago has likely erroded into the Neches River by now. So probably the best places to look would be in the vicinity of the Neches River, but be on the look out in similar habitat anywhere else in east Texas or Louisiana west of Mississippi River.

Smooth False Indigo Amorpha laevigata
I can’t recall at this moment who was looking for this one in east Texas (also rare in Louisiana). It’s more common in Oklahoma yet there are a dearth of observations of this species on iNat. So far we have:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7313342 (TX)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93044203 (OK)
plus some in my yard which are cultivated (grown from Oklahoma seeds)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125611064
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/169597249