Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask.
With CNC 2025 coming up, I’m wondering which individuals (especially plants) are worth making an observation about, and which ones would just be needless bloat. I can guess that all weeds etc are wildlife. All plants directly cultivated (in pots, in a garden, in a botanical park) are cultivated and not within the scope of the project.
What about trees and shrubs found in suburban areas, that clearly had been planted by someone, but are now unkempt? These are often the same local species that grow wild in natural areas nearby.
What about individuals that escaped? Clearly cultivated plants, spreading outside and growing like weeds. Or birds that were definitely captive but have fled, and now inhabit local parks (we have an issue with certain species of parrots here, for example).
Thank you!
i was thinking even if a species is massively well represented, data could still be inferred about things like soil and local climate from location data in combination with the IDs… so maybe it doesn’t need to be considered bloat, it’s useful or may become so
This is a repeat question of many previous threads.
What is less clear to me is lawn flowers that seem too uniformly spread to be weeds. We are just ending the season when tiny bluet and American field pansy flowered. In season, these will be seen spread fairly evenly across a lawn, flowering at just the height of mowed grass. Are they wild, or have there been lawn seed mixes that include these? It would be a different paradigm than the usual “grass, and grass only,” but not everyone with a lawn buys into that.
That lawn is an intensely managed horticultural planting. The bluets and pansies may not have been seeded by the manager, but their presence is entirely due to the horticultural management of the lawn.