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 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

Despite the #snowstorm, springtime appears to be underway based on this Winged One. The redpolls are coloring up as well.
#birding #birds #goldfinch #UpNorth #winter #birdphotos #birdpictures #phenology

#nativeplants Arrow-leaf Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) rising up from newly established colony on rocky, recently disturbed (clear cut) ridge. At 1350m #WALLOWAS #OREGON Nite temp -10C

Read overview by #MONTANA Native Plant Society pdf [161Kb] www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/balsamo...

#phenology

#phenology The TURKEY VULTURES are back! (Cathartes aura)..l #WALLOWAS #OREGON

I have 6 mature birds circling now
overhead…..at 1330m…they “know” me,
at least, that’s what I TELL myself…
They follow me while I’m out running…
I “talk” to them with my bone whistle.

#foto WIKIPEDIA #avian #wilderness

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
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
@usa-npn.bsky.social #phenology @bennollweather.bsky.social

Plant Species Biology: Vol 41, No 2 Click on the title to browse this issue

The latest issue (Plant Species Biology Vol 41, No.2) has been successfully published!
esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14421984...

#lifehistory #reproduction #pollination #speciation #adaptivemechanisms #populationbiology #diversification #seed #phenology #germination #seed

For those researchers who search social media for #phenology - 30 March 2026 - first day where the spring peepers can be heard from the wetland beside the McCormack Trail in the Dundas Valley Conservation Area (I've collected yrs of obs from same location) #HamOnt #wetlands #herpetology #ecology

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!

light brown colored female junco stands on a wooden porch.

A dark colored male junco stands on a wooden porch.

"The JUNCOS are back in town, the JUNCOS are back in town
I said, the JUNCOS are back in town, the JUNCOS are back in town
The JUNCOS are back in town, the JUNCOS are back in town
The JUNCOS are back in town, the JUNCOS are back in town"

#juncos #TheBoysareBackinTown
#ThinLizzy #Birds #phenology

We often talk about spring arriving earlier. But I wonder if in some years it also arrives more tightly packed.

Blackthorn blossom, bluebell growth, leaf burst, insect emergence — not just shifted forward, but compressed into a shorter window.

#Phenology #SeasonalChange #WildClocks

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

#ClimateBREAKDOWN Reports: The Expanding Atmospheric Sponge: Thirsty Skies & Drying Inland Lakes

LISTEN 10’ summary wav [40Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/thirsty-...

Report pdf [1Mb] www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/inland-...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Klimakrise #phenology VPD is a fundamental 🌿 formative force!

Spring is officially back in National Park Hainich! 🌿
Primrose, wild garlic, and the first blooms of the season are setting the stage for a new field year at our flux tower site. 📊🌱
#NationalParkHainich #ScienceSky #FluxTower #Ecology #FieldSeason #Phenology

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

#nativeplants 🌿 Flower buds emerging today, #OREGON Creeping Grape (Mahonia repens) low-growing, evergreen groundcover. Spreads via signature yellow rhizomes, edible (sour) blue berries, beautiful red/purple winter foliage

Used ifor its high berberine content,
esp. yellow root cambium

#phenology

Join us for our next colloquium! Dr. Njoki Kahiu will share cutting-edge research on vegetation dynamics and fire in the Southwest—linking remote sensing, ecology, and real-world challenges. #NMSU #Geography #EnvironmentalStudies #RemoteSensing #Phenology

thread (1) #phenology SAGEBRUSH BUTTERCUP (Ranunculus glaberrimus) 1350 m

The petal has a smooth outer layer & a pigmented lower layer with an air gap in between. Light reflects off the inner surfaces and combines with pigment reflection, causing specular (mirror-like) shine.

#biomimicry #WALLOWAS

#phenology MOUNTAIN Snowberry (Symphoricarpos oreophilus) leafing out now 1330m in open montane, Northeast #WALLOWAS #OREGON.

It’s partner, Common Snowberry (S. albus) moves bit slower in time, from bud-break, flowering, and holding onto its fruit--an important wildlife food--in Fall

#nativeplants

Luzula campestris Field Woodrush

My first Field Woodrush of the year. Good Friday Grass is pretty much always out well ahead of Good Friday these days, even when Easter is early. Another signs of the shifting patterns of nature because of what we have done, & continue to do, to the earth's atmosphere.
#wildflowerhour
#Phenology

#phenology Now, where I‘m sitting 1350m #OREGON montane, dew drops on Lupine (Lupinus arbustus)

Phenology, like water, is not a THING;
It’s a MOVEMENT, a rhythm, a symphony.
#ClimateBREAKDOWN is ripping this
apart, taking a chainsaw to MOZART.
What time should the dew be gone?

#nativeplants #foto

#phenology 🌿Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum) appeared today III.21.2026 at 1330m #Wallowas Northeast #OREGON A full month ahead of #climate average

A signature ephemeral of montane Spring!
Wildly abundant. Entire plant is wonderfully
edible

#wildflowers #nativeplants #wildcrafting #foto

#phenology Scouler’s WILLOW (Salix scouleriana) dioecious pioneer, #foto male CATKINS III.20.2026 opening & IV.10.2025 [w/ .5m snow] stamens unfolding BEFORE leaves, now full month BEFORE females

Why? Adapting to HOT DROUGHT new climate?

Dry, disturbed sites, center of avian
montane life

#OREGON

Red buds on the stem of a red maple tree. All buds are still closed except for one that's just beginning to burst.

Red maple budburst on the first day of spring. Very quaint. #phenology #springishere

GB hectad map for the distribution of Aelurillus v-insignatus, showing most of the population concentrated in southern England

Smart little spiders from your oddly isolated Edinburgh population, thank you! Please do iRecord them via the SRS form at irecord.org.uk/enter-srs-re... so that they contribute to our understanding of the species #phenology and habitat as well as distribution.

#phenology FIELDNOTES III.18.2026….Recorded on foot—no snow at 1300-1600m—a male chorus of Mountain TOADS
(Bufo borealis) out a month early…

An overview of current HEAT DOME
mp3 [23Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/fieldnot...

#nativeplants #foto INDIAN POTATO (Claytonia
lanceolata)

#OREGON #WALLOWAS

2/3 In this #session we will focus on synthesizing temporal components in ecology and integrating #temporal dynamics and #phenology into meta-ecosystem theory and empirical work. We aim to bring together #theoreticians and #empiricists to contribute to the session.

#phenology 🌿Biscuitroot (Lomatium triternatum) 2nd Lomatium 2 flower a month ahead of time…wildly abundant….edible

Note UMBEL strength/structure #TENSEGRITY A
continuous TENSION member & a
discontinuous COMPRESSION member
operating at max efficiency
#BuckyFULLER 🙏

#biomimicry #design #foto #OREGON

#ClimateBREAKDOWN Extreme HEAT DOME out doing #foto fieldwork. Set to reach 20 C. today. Official SWE Snow Water Equivalent 54% but actually MUCH lower than that (artifact of outmoded measuring tech) #phenology

Runaway illegal #WAR of aggression against #IRAN?
Last thing on #EARTH 🌎 we need…

#foto

#phenology Spreading DOGBANE (Apocynum androsaemifollium) Fruit: Pairs of narrow 5-to 10cm-long follicles split open to release seeds with silky hairs

W/ present snow drought at 1300m
the seeds are now everywhere
floating along w/ the warm afternoon
updrafts

#WALLOWAS #OREGON #foto #nativeplants