I’ve been recently made aware of a tool that allows you to apply several actions with a single input: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/announcing-the-universal-metadata-tool-beta/53182 . This means that you can, for instance, mark an observation as cultivated, mark it as reviewed, AND add a prewritten comment with a single button or key. What’s more, you can set up multiple different prewritten comments. Now combine this with the https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/responses page and you have a powerful tool for curating observations. This is what I have set up for filtering out cultivated plants:
I know it’s cultivated:
This appears to be cultivated. Be sure to mark planted plants as “captive/cultivated” when you upload observations of them. You can also do so after uploading by clicking the “thumbs down” next to “Organism is wild” in the Data Quality Assessment section at the bottom of this page on the website. If you don’t know how to tell cultivated plants apart from non-cultivated plants, please read here. If you need help with using the app, there are helpful tutorials on the iNaturalist help page. This one, is relevant for finding how to mark things as cultivated.
I’m pretty sure it’s cultivated, but can’t be absolutely certain:
This is most likely cultivated (let me know if you want details as to why I think that). As such, I am provisionally calling this cultivated unless you think otherwise.
If you agree that this is cultivated, please be sure to mark planted plants as “captive/cultivated” when you upload observations of them in the future. You can also do so after uploading by clicking the “thumbs down” next to “Organism is wild” in the Data Quality Assessment section at the bottom of this page on the website. If you need help with using the app, there are helpful tutorials on the iNaturalist help page. This one, is relevant for finding how to mark things as cultivated.
If you disagree with me, please let me know! I’d be interested to know more about where this species has become naturalized. Also, you can also click the “thumbs up” next to “Organism is wild” in the Data Quality Assessment section at the bottom of this page on the website if you disagree with me.
If you don’t know, please read this.
I don’t know if it’s cultivated but most plants of this species in this range are:
Is this cultivated? This is commonly cultivated and outside the range of where I would expect the species to grow wild.
For what it’s worth, this tool can be used for much more than this. I’ve particularly been enjoying how it will apply observation field values using hotkeys. Big shout out to @Megachile for making this tool!