Plant Reference Sheet

[Indiana2244]

I’ve created a reference sheet for myself and anyone else who might find it useful. Some of the plants listed are ones I don’t know much about, so I’d appreciate any help reviewing the information and sharing your input. There’s also a second sheet where you can suggest additional plants to include. If you think anything should be changed, please leave a comment here.

Plant Reference Sheet

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[b116757]

That is a groovy list

 

[cbw]

Love this!! I’ve thought of doing something similar. Now if you could integrate it with Picture This app


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[Turkey Creek]

Its a neat idea. While native grasses are certainly better than cool season invasive grasses, ChatGTP in my opinion has way overvalued them in your reference sheet compared to other plants. I wonder if ChatGPT relies heavily on what plant species were historically found on a "local" landscape.

 

[Native Hunter]

I agree it's a good idea, but the mistakes that Chat GPT made are too numerous to mention. I will give you three examples:

Sweetgum rated 5 for deer. I would rate below 0. Most deer manager would love to get rid of all of them.

Blackeyed Susan being rated 0 for deer. In reality it is browsed heavily in the spring.

Japanese Honeysuckle being rated 0 for deer. It is browsed heavily in the winter months and is an important food source in many areas.

 

[Indiana2244]

I agree it's a good idea, but the mistakes that Chat GPT made are too numerous to mention. I will give you three examples:

Sweetgum rated 5 for deer. I would rate below 0. Most deer manager would love to get rid of all of them.

Blackeyed Susan being rated 0 for deer. In reality it is browsed heavily in the spring.

Japanese Honeysuckle being rated 0 for deer. It is browsed heavily in the winter months and is an important food source in many areas.

I do think this varies by your location.
While I agree that most whitetail managers would love to get rid of sweetgums, but based on the research I found deer do browse them.
I have some black-eyed Susan's growing in a back corner of my yard and have not noticed deer browsing them but they do browse the partridge pea and common evening primrose that is next to it.
I did adjust the value for Japanese Honeysuckle.

Thank you for your input.

 

[Indiana2244]

Its a neat idea. While native grasses are certainly better than cool season invasive grasses, ChatGTP in my opinion has way overvalued them in your reference sheet compared to other plants. I wonder if ChatGPT relies heavily on what plant species were historically found on a "local" landscape.

I have adjusted a few and put them off to the right of the table. Do you think those values are better?

 

[KY wild]

I Agree with Native too many discrepancies but one that really shines to me is ranking eastern red cedar and red oak the same