Liquidambar styraciflua (american sweetgum) incorrectly listed as introduced in te

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Web

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About):

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?introduced&locale=en-US&nelat=34.208341552462976&nelng=-93.09417184405295&place_id=any&preferred_place_id=9853&subview=map&swlat=28.855442579485796&swlng=-99.11467965655295&taxon_id=49658

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49658-Liquidambar-styraciflua

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
This species is listed as introduced in numerous counties in Texas, despite it being native to the eastern half of the state

Step 1: selected bounding box in east texas

Step 2: searched for and selected American sweetgum in the search bar

Step 3: selected “introduced” filter

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Also, this species does not appear as introduced upon pulling up it’s “about” page

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In general, for issues with a species listing or status, please flag the taxon itself on iNaturalist.org. You can explain the issues as you did here and a curator can look at these and help change as appropriate.

In this case, establishment status can be changed by any user, not just a curator, so you can fix any errors with this yourself.

There’s some info on how to do this here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/establishment-means-corrections/1780
but you can also search for other threads.

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you may need this tool to see the proper establishment means records to change: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-can-you-get-the-full-list-of-establishment-means-for-a-taxon/15435/22.

i corrected some of the places in the Houston area a while back, but i didn’t feel comfortable changing the status for all the places in the Eastern half of Texas.

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Got it. Thanks!