Species
Four Central Otago spring annuals, three confirmed and one to settle. Sizes here drive every detectability figure in the harness — change a diameter and the flight advisor changes with it.
Ceratocephala pungens
Pygmy buttercupThreatened — Nationally Critical- Whole plant
- 1.8 cm across — the diameter every pixel budget is computed on
- Flower
- 4.5 mm across — yellow, petals 4–5 mm
- Colours
- #e8c437flower colour#7a8471foliage colourflower · foliage (sRGB, drives synth scenes)
- Flowering
- Sep–Dec
- Habitat
- Bare frost-heaved silty ground among Raoulia (scabweed) mats
Only around 31 observations of Ceratocephala pungens exist worldwide on iNaturalist — the gallery is thin because the plant is that rare.
Highest colour contrast of the group — the likeliest first win for detection.
Myosotis brevis
Dwarf forget-me-notThreatened — Nationally Vulnerable- Whole plant
- 1.2 cm across — the diameter every pixel budget is computed on
- Flower
- 0.8 mm across — white/cream, corolla 0.5–1 mm
- Colours
- #efeee6flower colour#6e7a5ffoliage colourflower · foliage (sRGB, drives synth scenes)
- Flowering
- Sep–Apr
- Habitat
- Small circular patches on open ground, decumbent branches 10–30 mm
The hardest RGB target: sub-millimetre white flower on grey-green foliage.
Myosurus minimus subsp. novae-zelandiae
NZ mousetailAt Risk — Declining- Whole plant
- 3.0 cm across — the diameter every pixel budget is computed on
- Flower
- 3.0 mm across — greenish-yellow, apetalous; elongating 'mousetail' spike
- Colours
- #a8b060flower colour#77855cfoliage colourflower · foliage (sRGB, drives synth scenes)
- Flowering
- Aug–Nov
- Habitat
- Damp, slightly saline hollows
Green-on-green; the fruiting spike is the only distinctive shape cue.
Species D — to confirm
Assumed Myosotis hikuwaiThreatened — Nationally Critical (if M. hikuwai)TO CONFIRM WITH HABITAT NZFourth species to confirm with Habitat NZ
Currently assumed Myosotis hikuwai. Every figure on this card is carried at that assumption and labelled as such — the registry swaps species without rework, so confirming it changes the numbers, not the build.- Whole plant
- 1.4 cm across — the diameter every pixel budget is computed on
- Flower
- 2.0 mm across — white, corolla ~2 mm (assumed)
- Colours
- #eae8ddflower colour#71805efoliage colourflower · foliage (sRGB, drives synth scenes)
- Flowering
- Sep–Nov (assumed)
- Habitat
- Gravel alluvial outwash terraces, open kānuka shrubland (if M. hikuwai)
No gallery: the fourth species is unconfirmed, so there is nothing honest to show. Confirm it with Habitat NZ and the registry swaps in the right photographs, sizes and flowering window without rework.
The 4th species is not confirmed — swap in the confirmed species without rework.
What these photographs are for
22 photographs across CC BY and CC BY-SA licences, each credited beside the image it belongs to.
Ground-level reference photos only — never training data for an aerial detector. They exist to verify field identifications (and the plant-ID APIs audit the labels): a plant photographed from 30 cm on a phone shares almost nothing with the same plant at 3 px in a nadir frame, so training on them would teach a detector the wrong problem. Attribution and licence travel with each image here, in the exports, and in any report a count from this harness ends up in.