I collected information about times plants near me sprouted and when they bloomed to help give information to a website (https://budburst.org) information so they can find out how Climate Change effects the blooming and sprouting of plants in various areas. This website also includes other projects (for example: about pollinators), all related to plants, but I chose this one because Climate Change is a huge problem and studies like this can help us to adapt and understand the severity of Climate Change in the future. I designed a schedule so that I would do one blog each day with different plants! I will also do more data collecting as well, and if I have time, I will do more blogs!

This plant with the yellow flower is what I observed. As I was doing my observation I noticed that a lot of the flowers are wilted and that there are some dead ones as well. The flower is exactly 12 inches tall, with some leaning. The petals are very circular, and almost a complete circle, but they are mainly oval shaped and rough around the edges. They have a rough diameter of three inches. The leaves are very thin and come to a point at the end. When putting my data into the website, I learned that this plant, (which I nicknamed :) on the website) is actually a Yellow Iris. Its flowers are in its middle phase to late phase so about half are opened, and all of the leaves are opened and healthy.

I observed this plant with a puffy white flower. I learned that it is called a peony. It has wrinkly white petals that push together to make a rounded flower almost like a hemisphere shape. The diameter of the flower is about 5 inches. The height of the flower is around ten inches give or take a few. I learned it is in its middle phase because there are a lot of peonies open and that some of them are buds and some have died. All oft he leaves are out and are rounded and come to a point at the end. The edges are jagged and darker green around 3 inches long.

I observed this spherical purple flower. I learned it is called an Allium which is part of the leek family and is also known as a wild leek. The rough diameter of the spherical flower is about five inches. The stem is about two feet long but is leaning and not straight up so that isn't necessarily the height. As you can see, the flower is made out of little star shaped flowers. These have a rough diameter of about one centimetre, which is roughly a third of an inch.. It also has long green stems and the long leaves at the bottom that vary in length but all around ten inches, are slightly brown and bent over. All of this information shows that it is in its middle flowering phase, because there is a bud but many flowers, and toward the end of its leaf phase because a lot of its leaves are dead/dying.

I learned that this yellow flowered plant is actually a yarrow. It is 1.5 to 2 inches across the flower with little petals that are about half a centimetre ( about 1/6 of an inch) in diameter. It is about a foot off of the ground with a stem with leaves on it. The leaves line the ground and almost have a fern like look and texture to them. There is also a lot of buds which means that it is in its early and middle phase when flowering. This yarrow, actually has a lot of edible parts which is a really interesting fact.

I looked back at the same Allium (Wild Leek) from last week. It looks very different. The color has faded and the petals have wilted a lot. It mainly kept the same measurements, but is less full and bright, and this might have to do with the heat wave lately. Also, the leaves have wilted a lot.

I learned that this is a purple sage and it looks really cool. It was about 1 and a half feet tall, and was in its middle blooming period. The shape of the leaves is around an oval but with a point on one end, and they are a lovely bright green. The flowers are tall and thin and surround the stem, and there are little indigo petals.