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Training Materials
Selecting Individual Plants

1. Select a site
2. Select plant and animal species
3. Select individual plants
4. Mark your site and plants
5. Record your observations of animals
6. Record your observations of plants
7. Report your data online

www.usanpn.org/participate/guidelines

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When selecting individual plant(s) to observe,
consider these issues:
• Plant health
• Number of individuals to monitor
• Plant lifespan (annual or perennial)
• Site conditions

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When selecting individual plant(s) to observe,
consider these issues:
• Plant health
• Number of individuals to monitor
• Plant lifespan (annual or perennial)
• Site conditions

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When selecting individual plant(s) to observe,
consider these issues:
• Plant health
• Number of individuals to monitor
• Plant lifespan (annual or perennial)
• Site conditions

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When selecting individual plant(s) to observe,
consider these issues:
• Plant health
• Number of individuals to monitor
• Plant lifespan (annual or perennial)
• Site conditions

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When selecting individual plant(s) to observe,
consider these issues:
• Plant health
• Number of individuals to monitor
• Plant lifespan (annual or perennial)
• Site conditions

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Plant health
Choose plants that are
• healthy
• physically undamaged
• free of insects or disease

Healthy alder tree

Diseased alder tree

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Number of plants of the same species
to monitor
• 1 to 3 plants of the same species at a site

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Number of plants of the same species
to monitor
• 1 to 3 plants of the same species at a site
• Not direct neighbors, but in a similar
environment

Three creosote bush plants selected for monitoring in an
observer’s back yard.

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Notes on annual and biennial plants
• Avoid choosing the first or the last seedling
to emerge
• Select a new plant to monitor each year (for
annual plants) or every other year (for
biennial plants)

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Other considerations…
• Avoid plants that are
close to a road or building
• For clonal plants, choose
individual stems from
different clumps

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Other considerations…
• Avoid plants that are
close to a road or building
• For clonal plants, choose
individual stems from
different clumps
Clonal aster plants
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What if the plant I am observing dies?
• Select a new individual
to monitor
• Note the death in the
comments section of the
datasheet
• Give the replacement
plant a new, unique label

Recently dead glacier lily
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