Also, I don’t know about the mainland US and other continental areas, but Hawaii gets flooded with photos of weedy alien species. Wading through 10,000 photos of honeybees and cultivated hibiscus to get to something interesting starts to feel like a waste of time after a while.
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If you’re mostly interested in IDing native things, you can use the filter introduced=false: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?introduced=false&place_id=11
(If the taxon isn’t yet appropriately marked as introduced in Hawaii, you can fix it with these steps:)
To change an existing listing go to the taxon page:
-Click the “Status” tab
-Under “Establishment Means”, click “View” next to the place
-Click the edit button next to “Establishment Means”, make your changes, and click Save
To add a new listing, in the main header search:
-Search for the place of interest, e.g. the state, country, or other place you are interested in, then click “About”
-Lefthand side (scroll down)>View check list page
-Search for taxon where it says “Type taxon name”
-If not on list, “Add to list” and add taxon to list
-Once on list, click “Edit” next to the taxon
-Click the edit button next to “Establishment Means”, make your changes, and click Save
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I think,“cultivated” is an important keyword in the response of @kmagnacca The question of OBs of cultivated plants was discussed with some heat in other thread (https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/disappointing-consistent-failure-users-not-marking-observations-as-cultivated/8791), but this may be the reason of certain reluctance (and resulting lack) of IDing botanists. If they subscribe to plants in certain area, they also get all the mass of cultivated plants not marked as such. Which may be huge amount in some areas. And I can very well understand that this may be a serious deterrent for IDers especially for the new ones. They take a look and run away.
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As far as Italy is concerned, it seems that almost every tourist that uses iNat app cannot resist to potograph and post observations of (obviously cultivated) stone pine grown in Rome. It’s a small world… ;-)
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The taxa are marked correctly as being introduced to the area, but someone has to identify it first. If you’re looking for interesting things to identify among the unidentified images, it’s a lot of noise. And yes, as @jurga_li said people frequently fail to mark cultivated things. Lots of these things can also be identified by the AI feature (which tends to fail with native taxa), but people often don’t use it.
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