3118: iNaturalist Animals and Plants

2025-07-21T17:56:44Z

2A00:23C5:ACB8:D501:2C47:5270:B0AD:398C: add explanation

{{comic
| number = 3118
| date = July 21, 2025
| title = iNaturalist Animals and Plants
| image = inaturalist_animals_and_plants_2x.png
| imagesize = 740x508px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = Washington, DC: Eastern gray squirrel, Amur honeysuckle. Puerto Rico: Crested anole, sea grape. US as a whole: Mallard, eastern poison ivy.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This page was created AS IT WAS MOST REPORTED, NOT AS IT MOST COMMONLY OCCURS. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}

This comic shows a map of the United States with the name of the most commonly-reported animal and plant on {{w|iNaturalist}} listed. As the comic notes, these are not the most most-encountered species, just the most reported on iNaturalist. Many people believe a region's "national animal" and "national flower" to be one that can be found in abundance in that region. In some cases the species most reported are an invasive species causing concern, for example great mullein and Amur honeysuckle.

For some states, the names are listed with a connector. The District of Columbia is too small to clearly print such information on the state itself, and in an awkward location for a connector; its listing is given in the title text, along with those for Puerto Rico (an unincorporated U.S. territory not normally shown on such maps) and for the U.S. as a whole.

==Transcript==
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[[Category:Maps]]
[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Biology]]

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3118: iNaturalist Animals and Plants