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Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

  • Looking for Cowslips

    Looking for Cowslips
    • Project lead: Sabrina Träger
    • Department of Biology / Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
    • Telephone: +49 345 55 26412
    • Topic: Plants, Land use
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://cowslip.science/
    In spring, scientists invite everybody around Europe to take part in the biggest cowslip observation campaign “Looking for Cowslips”. The aim of the project is to examine the patterns of flower morphological traits (i. e. heterostyly) in cowslip populations all across Europe using a citizen science approach. The citizen science project “Looking for Cowslips” was carried out already in 2019 and 2020 in Estonia and Latvia. Within the frames of this campaign, we obtained heterostyly data from...