I was convinced that Bonnie disliked me for the first year I was at CMNH. Actually, she may have, I still don't know. Jokes on her though - she warmed to me but I'm still an idiot!

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸

We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto.

The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

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Reposting this filter that turns google ai summary off. Has been life changing for me.

Not enough knotweed to be realistic 🙃

ETSU MSc student Liz Howe gives a demonstration of her research for the Wild Ones members on our afternoon wildflower tour

Got a nice pic of star MSc student Liz Howe giving a demonstration of her research project with the LI-6800. Measuring gas exchange and #phenology of #spring #wildflowers across elevational gradients.

@li-corenv.bsky.social

A juvenile great horned owl sits perched on the tip of a log. Down feathers show through its new adult feathers giving it an almost fluffy look

An upclose picture of a new and yet unopened flower bud of Trillium rugellii - the southern nodding trillium.

My students and I also led a wildflower tour today for @wildonesnatives.bsky.social Appalachian Highlands. Many ephemerals were done flowering, but Trillium rugelii was just starting up. Also saw a juvenile great horned owl!

A population of about 50 yellow trillium are shown in full flower on the forest floor with morning sunlight breaking through the canopy in the background. Each flower has three mottled green leaves and a bright plume of yellow flowers rising from the center of the leaves

An upclose image of a single yellow trillium. The leaves are mottled with different shades of green and the bright yellow flower petals rise from the center of them

My favorite campus flower is in peak bloom this week! Trillium luteum - yellow #trillium.

#spring #wildflowers #phenology #Tennessee

Michigan permanently protected 73k acres in the U.P. and secured public access $20 million conservation deal protects wolf, moose and brook trout habitat while opening the land to hunting, fishing, hiking and off-road recreation.

Some good news.

73,000 acres in a remote stretch of the Upper Peninsula’s Huron Mountains are now permanently protected from future development and open for public recreation. www.mlive.com/environment/... #906Life #PureMichigan

See where flowers and leaves are emerging early after record-warm March About 190 million people across the U.S. are experiencing an early start to spring, based on the behavior of lilac and honeysuckle, data shows.

Really nice article and visuals in @washingtonpost.com this morning showing how spring has arrived early - very early - in much of the lower 48 states
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@usa-npn.bsky.social #phenology @bennollweather.bsky.social

Forest Service overhaul sows confusion, concern - High Country News In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

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NKU students are collecting phenology data for plants. One student is checking a mayapple with a flower bud.

NKU students are collecting phenology data for plants. They are checking young leaves of a Ohio buckeye.

Amur honeysuckle is having young flower buds now as the tiny green buds at the base of leaf stems.

Young leaves are coming out a bud on a Ohio buckeye. They are still dark purple not green.

Perfect day to learn plant #phenology in Ecology lab at NKU REFS today to see how spring ephemerals, shrubs and canopy trees show different life stages in the forest and the difference between native and invasive plants!

A man's fingers lies behind the end of the tip of a branch. New green leaf buds are opening along the sides of the branch while the terminal leaves are black and shriveled from frost damaged. A label in the bottom corner indicates this species as Lindera benzoin

And now done flowering thanks to a hard frost last week: northern spicebush. Here you can see the second flush of lateral leaf buds starting with the terminal bud black and shriveled. Female flowers (shown) are still present, though likely already pollinated.

Bright green leaves hang down from a central stem above the brown forest floor. Text on the picture labels this species as Podophyllum peltatum

Sunlight shines through a rounded star-shaped green leaf with yellow veins, sprouting from the forest floor. Text in the corner labels this species as Sanguinaria canadensis

Elliptical, light green leaves spiral around a central stem as it rises from the forest floor. Text labels this species as something in the Polygonatum genus

Five still-expanding leaflets spread out from a central petiole. Text on the image labels this species as Aesculus flava

And some freshly up but not yet flowering, including yellow buckeye.

A closeup of a cluster of pink-white, four-petaled flowers hanging above thin green leaves. Text in the corner of the photo labels this species as Cardamine concatenata

A purple flower with a white center is suspended above a brown decomposing leaf on the forest floor. Text in the corner of the photo labels this species as Viola sororia

A bright yellow swirl of flower petals spirals up from an umbrella of three speckled green leaves. Text in the corner of the photo labels this species as Trillium luteum

A bright white flower with a neon yellow center rises from the brown forest floor. Text below the flower labels this species as Thalictrum thalictroides

Now blooming (or at least active) at ETSU's University Woods. Getting close to peak flowering for the #spring ephemeral #wildflowers!

#wildflowerHour #phenology #flowers

Map showing locations (in red tones) where conditions associated with early-season leaf-out are ahead of schedule. Much of the Great Plains is reaching this early-season check-point 3-4 weeks ahead of normal.

Map showing locations (in red tones) where conditions associated with early-season flowering are being reached ahead of normal. Oklahoma and surrounding states are reaching this early-season check-point up to 3 weeks early.

With all the recent record-breaking heat in the western states, it's no surprise to see many locations starting spring green-up (L) and flowering (R) 2-4+ weeks early. Early start=early allergies. Subsequent freeze events could do major damage to crops.
www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp... #phenology

Emerging leaves at the tip of a branch are held between thumb and forefinger. The leaves are still pressed together in a cone shape and are dark green to black in color

Anyone know the difference between frost damage and Laurel wilt disease on emerging Spicebush leaves?

Just planted them and have set aside some for DNA barcoding as well, but I figured folks here might know. The seeds have also been passed through a bear and then dehydrated, so I am not sure about viability.

Definitely far too small for pawpaw and pokeweed seems likely based on a quick image search

Ooh I think this might be it! Thanks for the suggestion!

A close up of small, shiny black, disc-shaped seeds laid over graph paper with 1" x 1" squares

A broader photo of the shiny black, disc-shaped seeds laid over 1 inch by 1 inch graph paper

Long shot, but does anyone know what these seeds are? They're coming out of southern Appalachian bear scat, so it would be something shrubby and fall fruiting. Graph paper squares are 1 in x 1 in. #botany

Interestingly, your sentence didn't need to begin with that word.

Botany 2026 conference graphic. Text reads: "Biodiversity at the Boundaries — Botany 2026, August 1-5, Tucson, Arizona. Registration Now Open! Early-Registration Deadline April 30, 2026. Abstract Deadline April 13." Features an illustrated desert landscape with cacti and the logos of six sponsoring societies including the Botanical Society of America. Website: www.botanyconference.org.

Registration is OPEN for #Botany2026 – Biodiversity at the Boundaries, August 1-5 in Tucson, AZ!

– Early-Registration Deadline: Apr 30
– Abstract Deadline: Apr 13
– BSA Travel Awards Deadline: Mar 15
– BSA Sectional Student Travel Awards Deadline: Apr 1

www.botanyconference.org
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A pair of white Hanes-branded underwear lays decomposing among leaves on the forest floor. New daffodil shoots emerge from the leaf litter in the background

Me in a terrible British accent: "Spring bloomers"

#spring #Phenology #WildflowerHour #flowers

Bright yellow-green flowers of northern spicebush are visible at the end of a brown branch being held up by a man's fingers

An orange beetle with black spots sits on top of a small, bright yellow flower with branches and brown leaves visible in the background

#Spring is here! #Phenology #flowers

Benjamin W. Lee - Wikipedia

Prize for his work had he not tragically died at age 42 in a car accident. My family sued for defamation when the books were published but were told that, because the books portrayed him as a hero, that it wasn't technically breaking any rules.

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A best selling series of books was written that fictionally depicted my grandfather as the father of the Korean nuclear program that was killed by the US before he could pass nuclear secrets to the homeland. In reality he was a theoretical physicist that likely would have won at least one Nobel

#ToReadPile

#ToReadPile

Jack Hughes (J'accuse) is an objectively funny name for an athlete that plays a sport invented by francophones

A person's hand holds up the tip of a spicebush branch to show swelling, globular floral buds

Dried putty-root seed husks that look like deflated balloons hang on a stalk above the forest floor with a putty-root leaf visible in the background

A purple and green leaf of a crane-fly orchid lies visible over otherwise brown leaf litter on the forest floor

Small new leaves of an aster are shown pushing up through leaf litter in the forst unserstory

Buds are swelling so the 2026 field season starts today. My condolences to all the other #phenology researchers personally victimized by climate change and progressively earlier field work 🙃

No. I'm not ready yet! Spring #phenology needs to wait.