Hello everyone, I have recently picked up my identifying and observing and one thing I tend to notice is many cultivated plants. My rule of thumb is: a. confirm that the plant is planted, no guessing(need to see direct evidence of a garden, sidewalk strip, or flowerpot), and b. identify the plant. …

I agree 100%, I guess the question is just how it is done best - yayemaster already mentioning specifying “if the plant is a “waif” or escaped if the plant is commonly cultivated” but you can do it several ways, e.g. in the observation fields, in a comment, in the description… Often one of them can…

It can be easily understood what you wrote about frustation after seeing many observations of yours marked as captive/cultivated when it is not the case. I can only say few things: In the case one of your OBs is wrongly marked, you have the right to ask those who marked it to revise their point o…

I can understand this - and so many people post a cultivated plant to try out the app and then never return that some marking as “not wild” is necessary. But please, please comment when you do so. We get alerts for comments, but we do not get an alert when someone marks something on the DQA. I be…

I can understand this can be very frustrating. However, building on what @Ajott said, you can’t really expect everyone who marks obs as not wild to be able to also provide a reliable ID. Going through the list of plant obs stuck at high-level taxa in the Netherlands recently I also encountered many…

I’m conflicted on this. I don’t personally mark observations as captive without providing some kind of ID, but I definitely understand that some identifiers would be inclined to do so. I also see value in captive observations–they can provide some useful data. Every once in a while I will filter obs…

I have the same issue with non-invasive, yet exotic trees, that grow in the wild (like Prunus persica), my observations have personal value to me so I usually add ‘casual’ if I think it was cultivated (because if I don’t it will mess with my data I’m storing on iNat which does not concern any cultiv…

Yes, I also find this really annoying as well, I had recently gotten some flowers in soil as a gift and had no idea what species it is. Even though I know its captive, I would really like it if people would identify plants to species level before marking it as captive.

In an ideal world, such (useful) “automatic votes” left by some iNat bot should disappear as soon as someone (i.e. a creature equipped with a brain and open to discussion) casts a vote. One less annoyance to counteract.

If you tip CV to Visually Similar for cultivated plants - you may get your answer.

iNat bot which recognises - this plant here is cultivated - is triggered by the previous batch of ‘creatures equipped with a brain and open to discussion’

I know there are some users who don’t want escaped garden plants that will likely not establish an enduring population to be included on range maps, so they will mark such observations as “not wild” regardless of whether or not the observer includes a note, and regardless of how obvious it is from t…

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