I wonder what is the best practice to track the same (wild) plant specimen across seasons. The only options I know are making multiple observations (but this is an issue with plants which have different looks across seasons) or modifying the same observation adding subsequent pictures In that case …

What seems to be the community consensus is described here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/using-the-field-similar-observation-set-for-linking-observations-of-lepidoptera-when-raising-on/1018 You can use a field for linking multiple observations that you know to be the same individual (even if the…

Best practices to track a plant across seasons

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edolis December 27, 2019, 6:42pm 3

Thanks a bunch @choess!

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Best practices to track a plant across seasons

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