Jo Latimore

Should you wish to jump into a Michigan lake in early March, my new map will help you plan where to go. 😆

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Learn aquatic plants of Michigan from some of our best!

Good stuff coming up! Lake webinars to add to your calendar.

Every year I am newly impressed by our volunteers. We have 340 lakes represented in the MiCorps Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program this year (a new record!), and over 150 of them are experienced enough to take on advanced parameters like chlorophyll. Go team!!

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Well, that's just awesome!

Michigan field guides? Online for free? Yes, please!

...Through the Looking Glass. Both are through University of Wisconsin Extension.

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My favorite regional guides are Aquatic Plants of the Upper Midwest by Paul Skawinski, and...

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This is great for invasive species and the native plants that look similar to them. There's an older key to common aquatic plants from MSU Extension. Some recent invaders are not included (we hope to update this one next!): www.micorps.net/wp-content/u...

A hand holds a spiral-bound booklet entitled, "Aquatic invasive plants: A field guide for Michigan lakes, streams, and ponds", published by Michigan State University Extension. An illustration of Eurasian watermilfoil decorates the cover.

Our new field guide just arrived from the printer! So happy. Can't wait it to get it into people's hands!

(If you just can't wait to see what's inside, it's already available online: www.canr.msu.edu/resources/aq...)

#MacrophyteMonday

Oh noooooo. The costs seem to just keep getting higher. Absurd and terrible.

ha! That's awesome. 🐂

A series of colorful snail sculptures on a pedestrian bridge in the evening.

Snails on parade!

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Experiencing the challenges of being on a Zoom team meeting with a Joel, a Joan, and a Jo (me).

A Chicago dog (no onions!!) with fries and drink on a picnic table.

A small lake with a natural shoreline under a blue sky.

Too busy today, helping Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program volunteers search for invasive plants in SW Michigan, to take photos of the work, but did manage to capture my lunch from a food truck I stumbled upon between lakes, and the lovely last lake of the day. 😍

Bloom of the white water lily, Nymphaea odorata. My favorite. Most people's favorite!

Watershield (aka snot bonnet), Brasenia schreberi, in bloom. Pale maroon flower among oval floating leaves.

Our intrepid crew of paddling botanists heading out among abundant plant life under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.

The purple flower spike of pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata, just coming into bloom, surrounded by arrow-shaped green waxy leaves.

I co-led two days of aquatic plant field trips for the Michigan Botanical Society last week in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A few highlights... #MacrophyteMonday

Aquatic plants on surface of a lake

Let’s play the “I spy” game! How many aquatic plants do you see? Can you identify them? Conference prep time! #2025APMS #SWS2025 #aquaticplants

Azolla, Ludwigia, Persicaria amphibia...?

Well done! It's U. cornuta (horned bladderwort)!

The tiny flower of an aquatic plant. It is yellow and looks like a tiny orchid on a very thin stem held above the damp plant.

Happy #MacrophyteMonday! I photographed this flower of an aquatic plant along the shore of a lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan today. Can you name it? Bonus points for naming the floating-leaf plant in the background...

Two smiling men on a boat holding a rake overflowing with invasive Eurasian watermilfoil.

You know that invasive plants are bad for our lakes. But do you know how to identify them? Do you know there's a Michigan program where you can learn to identify them, how to find them, and how to report them? It's the Exotic Aquatic Plant Watch! #MacrophyteMonday

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Hooray, Jim! Me too!

I worked with a former undergrad for 3 years to get her lit review project published in a T&F journal. Finally accepted in December; MSU finalized a waived OA fee with T&F for papers accepted starting Jan. 1. Oh well, $3k well spent so people can access her work. 😂😶

Great! MSU has been signing agreements with a lot of publishers along that front, too. And, perhaps like at your uni, maybe not doing the best job letting PIs know that these agreements exist...

Michiganders - are you ready? Sign up now on iNaturalist so you're ready to start posting your observations on Saturday!

(For those of you who are iNat-superstars, just go there and join our "MiCorps AIS Detection Blitz" project to participate.)

Collage of 5 photos depicting a plant with leaves, stems and roots. One photo was taken with a stereomicroscope.

ID Help: This specimen was found in a stormwater management pond (SWMP) in Ontario. It was found at 1-m depth, but given the dynamic water-levels of SWMPs, it could be an emergent plant rather than a submergent (which is what we are focused on). TIA for ID help. Cc @jolatimore.bsky.social

Ooooh... I want to see this!

Hmmm... Doesn't ring any bells. Looks pretty sturdy for a submergent so you might be onto something.