Super excited to have been part of the project using participatory science to study flower color variation, led by @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social!
McKenzie et al. applied a novel pipeline to automate floral color phenotyping from community science photographs, supporting anecdotal evidence that Monarda fistulosa is deeper purple in western vs. eastern North America.
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
