Hi all! Has anyone tried to track the biodiversity present in their lawn space? How prevalent do you think are invasive vs. native vs. non-native species in these concentrated areas? How would we be able to track these differences between the categories using inaturalist? Thank you!

There’re projects for properties, not only lawns, but probably could help with answering your question.

[image] paulawdeh: How prevalent do you think are invasive vs. native vs. non-native species in these concentrated areas? in my area, most lawns are dominated by one or two species, and the grass – the defining plant in the lawn – is usually technically an invasive, as defined in conservation…

Would you consider the lawn itself invasive, since these are often non-native grasses? Not sure about other lifeforms, but at least for plants, most everything I’ve found in my lawn is invasive (aside from grass), just because it’s a very tough environment for native plants to thrive in. With freq…

Hi! I live in La Serena, Chile, and during the pandemic, we were totally locked down. For months, I wasn’t really able to leave the confines of my lawn. So I just looked at what species I could find and wrote an essay about it. You can find it here: https://benlylebedard.wordpress.com/2022/04/21/th…

This is my property project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/appelbaum-property-survey I think there are probably about 1/5 non-native species. The grass is a mix of native and non-native. I wish we could mow less but I want to chop down the Bahia Grass seed heads before they mature. We remov…

I’ve discussed my no-lawn yard in a few places, especially this thread https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/monitoring-gardens-and-spreading-the-message/26094 I don’t have any before conditions for comparison, because my front yard was gravel and my backyard was invasive trees and dead grass when I move…

Around me, selfheal does well sometimes and then it’s the occasional ragweed, spotted spurge, American plantain and if there’s native asters going to seed near, they’ll stick around on a high lawn, but he greatest number and diversity of dicots on lawns is mostly not native. For the most part, it’s …

I find definitions on introduced/invasive are too inconsistent to really try to come up with a ratio. In my part of north america, it seems the majority of lawn weeds fit into the “introduced” category. I think a lot of “introduced” plants would probably be listed as invasive if they didn’t also fi…

I agree with bedenkrick- it is a great idea, but defining the terms more exactly would be useful. It seems like what you are looking for is more like “naturalized”- which is a plant that is introduced and persists on its on in the wild, but doesn’t necessarily displace other organisms or cause econ…

Unkempt, untreated lawns are fun places to botanize. Even better are disturbed areas that have been let to grow but get mowed somewhat often; treated like a lawn. Here’s some of the better finds I’ve made in lawns: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90806087 https://www.inaturalist.org/obse…

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