yeah the range one is slippery. On the one hand, it’s absurd to consider literally every pine species on the planet every time someone posts a pine observation in Vermont where there are really only a few pine species that ever occur here. On the other had, going down to subspecies level of everything based on location when there’s no differentiating characters is circular logic and doesn’t really serve any purpose, as discussed at length in that other thread. But where is the line exactly? Hard to say.Range, habitat, etc all make a difference and are valid in considering ID, but i don’t see the point of people who go through and change all my royal ferns to the North American subspecies based on the fact that I am in North America when there’s no other visible difference in photos… what’s the point? And if the European one ever somehow got introduced no one would ever know because they are only mapped by location…