Andrew Scott

Unido: 04.jun.2018 Última actividad: 26.mar.2024 iNaturalist

Grew up exploring the suburban sticks of Fort Collins, CO and discovered a great passion for plants only within the past few years. Since explorer and naturalist have become archaic professions, I'll just pretend to be one in the meantime!

I got a bachelor's degree in rangeland ecology from Colorado State University in 2020 and worked at the Central Plains Experimental Range with the USDA shortly thereafter, so most of my finds are plants from the shortgrass steppe. Occasionally I got low res photos of animals running away from me too. Now I work at a botanical garden, so I mostly just document invasive weeds. :)

My favorite plants include:

Grasses: slender wheatgrass (Elymus trachycaulus), sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus), sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula), and Indian ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides)
Forbs: slimflower scurfpea (Psoralidium tenuiflorum), showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa), scarlet globemallow (Sphaeralcea coccinea), tahoka daisy (Machaeranthera tanacetifolia), Lewis flax (Linum lewisii), and sacred datura (Datura wrightii)
Shrubs: golden currant (Ribes aureum), alder-leaf mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus montanus), and chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)
Trees: pinyon pine (Pinus edulis), alders (Alnus spp.), horse chestnuts (Aesculus spp.)

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