xpacifica's Journal
Had fun today observing a lot of Quercus species on Mt. Tam. It's easy to just walk past them and not think about them as most people probably do, but when you look at them closely there is a lot of interesting variation.
I didn't have time to try to ID down to the species level but will try later when I have time.
Was investigating the taxonomy of an observation of Ranunculus californicus ssp. californicus that I made in April (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/42825437) and thought it would be interesting to annotate images in Photoshop with some salient identifying info from Jepson and Marin Flora (see the last two images).
It seems like having annotated images like these would be really helpful to people. If the main photos that are shown in iNaturalist for each species had relevant annotations it might help people to learn botany and focus on important identifying features. Just an idea.
