Project Budburst

Boxelder (Acer negundo) Steve Baskauf, Vanderbilt University, bioimages.vanderbilt.edu

Join thousands of others in gathering valuable environmental and climate change information from across the country. Project BudBurst engages students, teachers and the public in making careful observations of the phenophases such as first leafing, first flower, and first fruit ripening of a diversity of trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses in their local area. 

The new BudBurst website has been launched today at www.budburst.org! It is time to choose a species (or several) to monitor from the Budburst list in your region and head outdoors to document the progress of spring.  The website has lots of information, complete with photos, to help you identify Budburst species and enter your observations.  And don't forget to post photos of your BudBurst plants on their Facebook site too.