Geophyte filter in Calscape

I see that it’s been just a little over a year since I heard back about volunteering with Calscape, a little under 11 months since my first commit (“Allow setting calscape server under test via flag”). It’s been a good year working with the Calscape folks and other volunteers, and I hope it’s something I’ll be able to keep on doing for a long while.

I’m happy with the latest small thing I’ve been able to do, adding support for “Geophyte” as a plant type. This is based in part on the exploration in this previous blog post, California geophytes.

You can try it out by navigating to the plant search page, https://calscape.org/search, and clicking on the “Geophyte” under “Plant Type”. (Or you can click this link, which ought to accomplish the same.)

If you any notice any problems with it, I’d love to hear about them and see about fixing them. (Or if it’s working well, I wouldn’t mind hearing about that too.)

Thanks much to Philip Rundel for the clear definition of “geophyte” and the list of families and genera to include in his article “Making Sense of Geophyte Diversity”, Fremontia, Volume 44, Number 3, 2016 [PDF] (Archive).

Finally, here are a few more photos from me of geophytes I’ve seen various places.