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Spring/Summer 2020 Iris the Alberta Native Plant Council Newsletter No. 85 Spring/Summer 2020 Iris The Alberta Native Plant Council Newsletter Capture Curiosity with NatureLynx In This Issue and Alberta PlantWatch Capture Curiosity with NatureLynx and Alberta Jordan Bell PlantWatch ....................................1 Pollinator Profle ...........................2 No doubt you’re familiar with since 1987—is the driving force behind naturalist smartphone apps that help the saskatoon PlantWatch mission. New Illustrated Vascular Flora users put names to observations of Beaubien saw an opportunity to grow for Alberta ....................................3 plants and animals they encounter the community of PlantWatchers by Plant Photography Basics ............4 in their travels. But, did you know embracing the digital data collection there is an Alberta-based app focused platform offered by NatureLynx. A Rose by Any Other Name ..........6 exclusively on Alberta species, and Although saskatoon is just one of Message from the President ........8 that aims to connect users to the 26 plants observed by PlantWatch, it is many citizen science and monitoring easily identifable, can readily be found initiatives taking place province-wide? in all of our natural regions, and frst bloom can be clearly observed, making NatureLynx is a free citizen science it a great ft for crowd-sourced photo app developed by the Alberta data. Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) to help Albertans learn about Last season (2019), with the help of data the biodiversity in their own backyard collected on NatureLynx, PlantWatch while contributing to various data recorded a mean saskatoon frst collection efforts. Users can upload their own photos, recommend species See NatureLynx and PlantWatch, page 8 identifcations to others, and join Look for more information existing Alberta-based citizen science on the ANPC’s website. projects. Users can also create and anpc.ab.ca manage their own groups and missions on the app to collect sightings, and pursue questions, of particular interest to them! One such mission aims to monitor the spring bloom of saskatoon (Amelanchier alnifolia). Elisabeth Beaubien of Alberta Cover photo: Marsha Hayward PlantWatch—a citizen science project Common freweed (Chamerion angustifolium). that has tracked the annual bloom of plant species across the province Iris ♦ The Alberta Native Plant Council Newsletter ♦ No. 85 Spring/Summer 2020 Pollinator Prole Lincoln Best Bee Species: Dufourea dilatipes Bohart, Cane and Sipes (2006). The genus 1948 (Halictidae) Calochortus is increasingly species rich Plant Species: Calochortus apiculatus as one travels south and west toward Baker, 1874; Calochortus lyallii Baker, montane California. C. apiculatus is 1874 (Liliaceae) limited to the extreme southwest of Relationship: Bee is a narrowly Alberta and ranges westward to the oligolectic forager and a pollinator of Kootenay Boundary in BC, whereas these plant species. C. lyallii is known only from the South Okanagan Grasslands Protected Area This profle presents the bee Dufourea and nearby localities in Canada. Both dilatipes Bohart, 1948. It’s a small, lilies bloom from mid-May to early Best Lincoln Calochortus apiculatus 8-10 mm, black, bristly sweat bee in July and favour dry, often rocky the family Halictidae. Unlike its closest habitats, open meadows, and conifer sweat bee relatives, most of whom are forests. D. dilatipes was frst discovered semi-social, D. dilatipes has a solitary in Waterton National Park in 1923, lifestyle. Males and females emerge and later in 1930 and 1938 in adjacent in concert in late spring, mate, and Glacier National Park in Montana. The the females continue on nest building, present range of D. dilatipes is now provisioning pollen balls, and laying known to overlap that of its foral hosts eggs. in southern and southeastern British Columbia, and southwestern Alberta This sweat bee excavates nests in in Canada. Our little black bee requires the ground and is a pollen collecting these foral hosts. It’s common among Best Lincoln specialist of two mariposa lily species populations of its host and absent Calochortus lyallii within the Canadian extent of its range. outside their range. The fdelity of these bees to their foral hosts is described as narrow oligolecty, Propagation of Calochortus from seed is meaning they collect pollen from challenging, requiring cold stratifcation only a few closely related species of at very low temperatures and high fowering plants. In this case, those moisture levels. Conservation strategies species are Calochortus apiculatus are straightforward: 1) Conserve Baker, 1974, known as Baker’s, three- habitats where the host plants are spot, or pointed-tip mariposa lily, and known to occur, 2) Re-establish Calochortus lyallii Baker, 1874, Lyall’s populations of these plants where Lincoln Best Lincoln mariposa. For more information on they’ve been lost, and 3) Support your Dufourea dilatipes male perched on pollen collecting fdelity in bees, review local native plant nursery. Calochortus apiculatus See Pollinator Profle, page 8 Lincoln Best Lincoln Dufourea dilatipes male nectaring on Distribution of C. apicalatus and C. lyallii in Canada. (Source: GBIF.org 2020) Calochortus apiculatus 2 www.anpc.ab.ca Iris ♦ The Alberta Native Plant Council Newsletter ♦ No. 85 Spring/Summer 2020 Coming soon to a store near you! Alberta Native Plant Council Linda Kershaw and Lorna Allen Garneau P.O. 52099 Edmonton, AB T6G 2T5 For the past 4-5 years, we’ve been website: www.anpc.ab.ca working on a series of illustrated keys email: [email protected] for the vascular plants of Alberta. The President purpose of a plant key is to help the Kristen Andersen reader to identify a species by working [email protected] progressively through a series of Vice-President choices, looking at diagnostic features Vacant of the unknown plant. Previously, the most comprehensive keys for Alberta Secretary Taylor Lowe were found in the Flora of Alberta, [email protected] published in 1983. Since then, there have been major revisions in botanical Treasurer Julie Figures classifcation. Some of these have [email protected] resulted in new (or at least different) As the keys have been completed, names for species that grow in Alberta, the ANPC has posted them on their Directors and some have led to the reorganization website, allowing people to try them Marsha Hayward (Northern) [email protected] of groups such as families and genera. out and let us know if there were errors, omissions or ways to improve Jon Kozak (Central) Also, since 1983, over 240 new species [email protected] have been identifed growing wild in the text and illustrations. Last fall, we Liz Morrison (Southern) Alberta. We felt it was important to fnally fnished the last of the keys, and [email protected] through the winter we’ve been at work Kim MacKenzie (Director-at-Large) incorporate these species into the fora. [email protected] We have also simplifed terminology, editing and updating them, and then Trish Hiley (Communications) where possible, and provided a compiling the revised versions in a [email protected] single volume. The result is a 500-page glossary to defne any of the more Membership Secretary technical terms used. book entitled Vascular Flora of Alberta: Kelly Ostermann An Illustrated Guide. [email protected] When people identify a plant, many Conservation Action want to know if the species is native We had hoped to have the book on Laurie Hamilton or exotic, and, if introduced, whether shelves by April 2020, but as with [email protected] most projects these days, COVID-19 or not it is designated as a noxious Information and Education/Outreach weed in Alberta. At the other end interfered with our plans. We are Kristen Andersen of the spectrum, many plant lovers publishing through Kindle/Amazon, [email protected] and Amazon couldn’t ship proofs to are interested in identifying rare Rare Plants native species. In an effort to address Canada for several weeks. We were Vacant this, we’ve noted exotic species fnally able to order proof copies of the book in May and should have copies Reclamation and Restoration with superscript Xs (X=exotic with Vacant no weed status; XX=noxious weed; in hand by the end of the month. Once XXX=prohibited noxious weed). About these arrive, we hope to complete the Webmaster fnal edits and publish the book in early Carole Dodd a dozen species have both native [email protected] and exotic varieties or subspecies June. In the meantime, here’s a peek growing wild in Alberta, so these have at the cover. It will be sold through Social Media Amazon.ca, and it will also be available Cam Johnson been added to the keys with their [email protected] distinguishing characteristics. Rare for distribution through bookstores. species are noted with their S-ranks* Newsletter Committee ______________________________ Dana Bush in superscript (S1; S1S2; S2; S2S3), and Patsy Cotterill tracked S3 species are also included. * An S-rank is the subnational Alfred Falk (provincial or state) rank given to a Eri Hiraga taxon using NatureServe methodology. Coleen Mahoney A picture is worth a thousand words, so Patricia McIsaac we’ve included illustrations for every The rarest species are S1; the most Jen Muir species to help with identifcation. common and widespread are S5. ♦ Kelly Ostermann Mélanie Violette There are also labelled drawings for And many volunteer writers . most families, showing plant parts that are referred to in the keys. www.anpc.ab.ca 3 Iris ♦ The Alberta Native Plant Council Newsletter ♦ No. 85 Spring/Summer 2020 Photography Basics — Plant Edition Lorna Allen I have taken (no exaggeration) Tip #3 wanting to fgure out what species of hundreds of thousands of photos: a A corollary to tip #2; if the camera plant you have found: few good ones, many OK ones, and won’t “go,” maybe the battery is the majority which go directly into the dead OR maybe it’s just not installed The full picture garbage bin.
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