A research summary posted on Phys.org is titled: " Thousands of native plants are unphotographed, and citizen scientists can help fill the gaps". Link: https://phys.org/news/2023-03-thousands-native-unphotographed-citizen-scientists.html From the article: “Using a platform like iNaturalist, keen ci…

here’s the heat map of unphotographed species from our paper [image] whilst the major hotspots are indeed in more rugged and remote areas as you would expect, such as The Kimberley or Arnhem Land, there are definitely still a noteworthy number with records from around major cities (many of these …

[image] thebeachcomber: many of these tend to be grasses or sedges I’m not surprised. It’s probably even worse for the non-vascular plants. I created a checklist for the liverworts of North Carolina a while ago, using published keys, and over 1/3 of those species have no taxon picture on iNat…

I’ve got loads of photos of flowers and plants in WA but I don’t know what most of them are, with certainty. Do I just upload them without a name? Thanks

for sure! Just add as best an ID as you can (if that happens to be ‘plants’, that’s completely fine), and others will ID them for you. Important not to leave the ID blank

For Africa - honest Unknowns will get seen sooner (I am way behind as there is a huge batch of Duplicate? Please combine multiple pictures of the same individual of a species https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-turn-multiple-observations-into-a-single-observation/9838 sob - Plantae - in Afric…

yes I’m referring to Western Australia

[image] DianaStuder: WA is not West Africa, but West Australia? Over here in the US, that would be the state of Washington in the Pacific northwest. Aren’t abbreviations fun? When I moved from Germany to Delaware, I used to joke that my location hadn’t really changed that much going from DE a…

It’s not just plants. I was totally amazed that my totally obvious beetle on a Texas bluebonnet flower turned out not to have any photos from the wild, at least in iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151020628

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