BIO
Attorney & environmentalist. Fortunate to have free time to spend on iNaturalist - it's crazy how much more accessible this stuff has gotten across the last couple decades. Generally based in Kansas, USA.

Virtually unknown author of the not-fully-debunked (you may disagree) Dandelion Manifesto. Purveyor of maps, maps, maps, and maps! Crazed defender of time-wasting. Advocate for x-rays and observations from space stations.

Current ID Leader for research-grade USA observations in the following plant orders: amborellales, berberidopsidales, bruniales, chloranthales, icacinales, metteniusales, paracryphiales, trochodendrales, and vahliales! That's 17% of all flowering plant orders. You are, too, as there are no research-grade USA observations for those orders! Way to go!

BIGGEST CURRENT MYSTERY:
I sure don't know what it is, but it looks worthy of an ID!

Prior mysteries:
Western False Gromwell
American Sycamore
Multiflora Rose
Black Horse Fly

My saddest, most lonely unconfirmed observation:
This evil Puncture Vine just wants some attention.

Cutest photo I've seen on iNaturalist:
OMG JUST LOOK. Totes adorbs, as I like to say when I want my wife to mock me.

Inspiring me to write the first (um, kind of) published paper on the canine/pink lady's slipper relationship!