by admin | Apr 29, 2009 | Plant Organizations, What's Blooming
Besides the Central New York effort described below there is a national effort to monitor phenology. From their website – The USA National Phenology Network brings together citizen scientists, government agencies, non-profit groups, educators and students of...
by admin | Apr 28, 2009 | Plant Organizations, What's Blooming
What is Project Budbreak? The web site has been established to help citizen scientists observe the effects of climate change on native plants in central New York. Associated with a national effort, a network of citizen scientists is being established in central New...
by admin | Apr 28, 2009 | Plant Identification, Quiz
Number 1: Red maple male flowers. Everything is red! Number 2: Silver maple female flowers: The fruits are hairy. Number 3: Boxelder maple male flowers: The stamens are very long. Number 4: Norway maple perfect flowers: Large petals and bright...
by admin | Apr 26, 2009 | Plant Identification, Quiz
Look at the images below and see if you can guess to which species they belong. Maple trees are polygamodioecious. Some are all male and some are all female but sometimes parts of the tree can have male flowers and some parts female. Answers tomorrow.
by admin | Apr 25, 2009 | Ecology, Natural History, Publications, Apps, and Websites
An article by Bibi Stein in Wildflower Magazine’s Spring 2009 issue features the natural communities and plants of the riverside ice meadows at South of the Glen, in Warrensburg. Read it at http://www.wildflower.org/pastissues/?id=130 The magazine is published...
