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Top plant species that observers are recording.
Image credit:
Ellen G. Denny
All Time Top Plant Species Observed
| Rank | Species | Number of Observations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | red maple (Acer rubrum) | 79692 |
| 2 | common lilac (Syringa vulgaris) | 31745 |
| 3 | sugar maple (Acer saccharum) | 30849 |
| 4 | coyotebrush (Baccharis pilularis) | 30120 |
| 5 | Eastern Mojave buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) | 27271 |
| 6 | California live oak (Quercus agrifolia) | 24053 |
| 7 | American beech (Fagus grandifolia) | 23489 |
| 8 | valley oak (Quercus lobata) | 21306 |
| 9 | northern red oak (Quercus rubra) | 21212 |
| 10 | eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) | 20424 |
| 11 | tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera) | 19821 |
| 12 | black cherry (Prunus serotina) | 19390 |
| 13 | flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) | 19359 |
| 14 | Red Rothomagensis lilac (Syringa chinensis) | 19303 |
| 15 | ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) | 16303 |
| 16 | black elderberry (Sambucus nigra) | 15478 |
| 17 | white oak (Quercus alba) | 15429 |
| 18 | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) | 15131 |
| 19 | sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) | 13299 |
| 20 | creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) | 12961 |
| 21 | chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum) | 12009 |
| 22 | pignut hickory (Carya glabra) | 11412 |
| 23 | common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) | 11286 |
| 24 | eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) | 10893 |
| 25 | California buckeye (Aesculus californica) | 10619 |