i’m not a curator, but my understanding is that establishment means can be changed without curator status. i’ve run into this problem with Liquidambar stryaciflua (sweetgum). currently it’s showing as introduced in the Houston, TX, area, and i’m pretty sure it’s native here and through most of E TX. i was going to flag it for curation, but there was an existing flag already dealing with this, and i was advised to change it for areas for which i have local knowledge.
so i went in and changed some counties in E TX to native using the taxon establishment means page, which i figured would override the Texas-level introduced status. but it did not. it looks like there are several other overlapping non-county places (which i cannot seen in the taxon establishment means page due to the top 100 limit) that also have establishment means set. so i started to go into each place to remove the establishment means, figuring county-level is all that is needed. but i’m finding there are so many places that have this set. i removed Greater Houston Area establishment means, and Southeast Texas, and maybe a few others. but when i was seeing stuff still showing as introduced because of Hurricane Harvey Flood Zone and Herman Brown Park, i figured i should stop before i get in too deep and waste too much time, and see if there’s just a better way to do this.
to the original suggestion, i would add that it might be helpful to see parents as well as descendants as part of 1d. but really, if i could just see all the places on the taxon page, with place type, and sortable headers (so that i could sort by place type, then name) then that would be enough for me to do what i’d like to do without too much pain.