I’ve recently noticed that multiple users have marked a lot of my wild/escaped cultivar flower observations as “not wild”. A lot of my observations that are being tagged are pretty old, so I didn’t notice that none of them were eligible for research grade until recently. If I’m posting a close-up ph…

When I see a plant that I suspect is planted, I will ask the user “Planted” and if they respond yes, I’ll mark it as captive/cultivated. If they are unsure and I am not certain that it’s planted I’ll leave it as wild. This happens to me a lot, so to avoid this I usually don’t observe plants that I …

I regularly encounter Narcissus and other nonnative or out-of-range species “deep in the woods” (or similar) that were actually deliberately planted decades ago at a now-vanished homesite. Sometimes the evidence is quite subtle – a foundation stone and the fact that all of the introduced species are…

[image] sbrobeson: that were actually deliberately planted decades ago at a now-vanished homesite I never knew that, thans for the tip! I’ll be on the lookout for anything that looks out of place near potential escapees.

Yes, along with lilacs, daylilies, and apple trees, all great indicators that you are in the area of an old homesite (in eastern USA, at least)!

In Greenville, a new trail recently opened – only open to the public outside of school hours because it traverses a school property. Although both sides of the trail are currently woodland, one side parallels a chain link fence in disrepair, with several Japanese privet, evenly spaced, just in front…

[image] ian_medeiros: Yes, along with lilacs, daylilies, and apple trees, all great indicators that you are in the area of an old homesite (in eastern USA, at least)! I see daylilies spread by seed so I don’t know if that is a good example Lycoris radiata red spider lily aka hurricane lily i…

The common daylily in the wild in my area (New England in the US), Hemerocallis fulva, doesn’t set seed, as far as I know. It spreads by root rhizomes that are often pushed along roads or rivers by road maintenance or flooding/ice scour.

Daffodils do self-seed, both in garden settings and where naturalizing in the wild. I have a few patches around my yard that popped up from seed coming over from the neighbor’s lot. I never planted any myself. There are large populations of them in the Smokies, for example, and Daffodil Flats in Lin…

I think it comes back to the issue of the app automatically marking everything as Wild unless you tell it otherwise. Personally, when I submit a photo and it’s marked Wild, it’s because I think it’s wild and I’ve made a thoughtful assessment of the surroundings. And I also get annoyed when someone w…

It’s not just old homesteads. Some misguided souls decided to make a beautiful subalpine meadow near Lake Tahoe “prettier” by planting daffodils and other bulbs. Guerilla gardening is fine in urban landscapes, but please discourage people from distributing non-native plants in the wild.

Confused and irritated about non-cultivated plants being tagged as cultivated plants

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lappelbaum May 26, 2025, 9:32pm 14

I see daylilies spread by seed so I don’t know if that is a good example

Lycoris radiata red spider lily aka hurricane lily is a good one in southeast USA. Especially if they are in a straight line.

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Confused and irritated about non-cultivated plants being tagged as cultivated plants

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