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

 

[Turkey Creek]

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

I think your numbers are way too high for turkey and quail. Neither one of them use those native grasses for a food source. Turkeys do not typically like to be in any dense vegetation type that is taller than they are. Quail do use scattered clumps of native grass for nesting, and maybe some more solid stands in times of extreme cold for help in thermal regulation. But quail are not going to be in dense stands of native grass for any length of time. Both birds are typically seed and insect eaters which are typically more abundant in forb communities.