Fellow iNatters, I regret to inform you that not so long ago, despite our best efforts, we had collectively failed in our noble task to bring the full glory of identification to the world of dandelions. Just days ago, within the realm of the so-called United States, over 80,000 purported dandelion …

[image] cthawley: The original topic focused on approaches to identify dandelions on iNat. While discussion of dandelion taxonomy is certainly an aspect of that, a general discussion about the merits of splitting/lumping is tangential. A few people have contributed links to European guides to…

I just learned there’s a Taraxacum of North America facebook group for discussing dandelion ID, although I’m not sure how active it will be.

I tried this approach on 534 Taraxacum observations in Ohio. The users making these observations generally had very low observation counts overall. The most common number of observations for the group of 534 was “1”. Twenty one of the 534 observations were made by users who only made that lone dan…

Is anybody able to get the “similar species” to load on the T. officinale taxon page ? It’s never worked for me (at least at the United States level - every once in a while a state will load). It works for every other species I think to try, at every geographic level, basically instantly. Thought I’d…

[image] comradejon: Is anybody able to get the “similar species” to load on the T. officinale taxon page ? It’s never worked for me This might indicate (I don’t know for sure) that the Similar Species tab is dynamically populated from existing observations whenever someone clicks on it. It ma…

Yeah, actually my first thought was Gerald :-) (Warning to anybody inclined to click the link - he might take a bit to fully load)! I do suspect the similar species are dynamically populated, but I tried a lot of other species with even more observations than T. officinale, and “similar species” are…

Similar species for T. erythrospermum is not loading for me either, nor is genus taraxacum. It is loading the similar species for other super observose species like Mallards, yarrow, and clover. Maybe something has triggered it to re-index all of taraxacum, or an ancestor, at once? That’s my best gu…

I can get them all to work if I narrow the location to county. However, choosing larger locations like state results in failure to load anything.

Cross-reference to bug report here. Might be best to post related comments there instead of here.

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This might indicate (I don’t know for sure) that the Similar Species tab is dynamically populated from existing observations whenever someone clicks on it. It may be choking on the number of observations…

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