Invasive SpeciesJapanese barberry

Berberis thunbergii
FOUND by sniffly salamander
2012-10-17
Portland
ID Confirmed
Quality checked by Sniffly
Peer reviewed by
Field Notes
The sun has set. It's starting to get chilly. I'm excited to try collecting and publishing from the iPad. Because the light is fading and the breeze is blowing the plants, it was hard to focus. It was also weird figuring out where the camera focused. All the photos are uploading upside down from the iPad. Hm.
Supporting Evidence
Photo of my evidence.
The leaves were around 2 cm, oval, with smooth edges.
Photo of my evidence.
There was one thorn per joint. You can also see a few remaining red, oval berries.
Species Observation: Species Looked For
Did you find it?: 
I think I found it
Scientific name:
Berberis thunbergii
Common name:
Japanese barberry
Sampling method: 
Just looking around
Photo of our sampling method.
Place Studied
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Latitude: 
N 43.666482 °
Longitude: 
W -70.283489 °
Observation Site Information
A photo of our study site.
Habitat: 
Upland - Developed areas
Trip Information
Name:
The neighborhood
Trip date: 
Wed, 2012-10-17 18:06
Town or city: 
Portland
Type of investigation: 
Species Survey
Ecosystem: 
Upland
Watershed: 
Presumpscot

Comments

Submitted by chem on Tue, 2012-10-23 12:51.

Nice Job

Sniffly Salamander,

I thought that you did a very good job on your project. Although, I would consider retaking your pictures and change them so that they aren't upside down. Also some of them are sort of blurry because the leaves are blowing so I would go back on another day that is not windy and change the pictures.

One last piece of advice is that I would add some more evidence to the caption under your pictures. Right now, you only have one sentence and I think it would be a little more interesting if you had a little bit more information.

Good job!
~Chem! :)

Submitted by themothership on Tue, 2012-10-23 08:17.

very nice

You had a very nice project. I thought your pictures were very good. I like how your pictures are in color and not in black and white. You also had nice facts and information.

Submitted by skimpy on Mon, 2012-10-22 17:05.

I Wish Mine Was Like That!

That is a great piece of work there! I wish mine was done like that! Nice simple and straight to the point. The field notes were so well written I automatically thought I was there with you doing the research. I think it would be even better if there was a third evidence and if that first evidence picture didn't look a little blurry (I still gotta give you credit for that though, because it was took on an ipad). Overall a great piece of work... it is really neat how all of the pictures were done on the ipad.

Submitted by thebums on Mon, 2012-10-22 09:36.

Almost perfect!

Your field notes were very well written and really made me feel like I was there with you. You described each picture well with good descriptive words. There was just one thing that would have made it perfect! Your picture of the leaves was a little blurry and it looked like you were moving when you took it. Still it was pretty impressive, especially with an ipad. Good job. Your colleague -the bums

Submitted by Mainer95 on Sat, 2012-10-20 14:13.

Sweet!

Sniffly,

Those are some sweet photos there! And, it is really cool that you used your iPad to take them! It's really exciting that VS is going mobile. You have some rock-solid evidence there. Nice job!

As always, keep up the great work! Give my best to the rest of the team! :)

Your friend in the Great Plains,
Mainer95