After reviewing thousands of my archival images and uploading 2,000+ wild (flora, fauna, fungi) observations to my account I am currently turning my focus to my personal property. In 2015 my re-designed our property - honestly, for privacy. At first we simply relocated a lot of the plants, trees & …

I believe the consensus has generally been that the ones you transplanted are cultivated, but their naturalized offspring are wild as long as you didn’t plant those as well.

[image] Star3: I believe the consensus has generally been that the ones you transplanted are cultivated, but their naturalized offspring are wild as long as you didn’t plant those as well. This is my general thought as well…but since the initial presence of the plant was due to my human-inter…

You’re welcome! This question has been posed many times on both this forum and the previous one (I’m feeling too lazy to link them all) and will doubtless come up again, so it is fine to ask it again.

[image] jessicaleighallen: My purpose in adding these cultivated species to my iNat is personal ; I am able to search and filter images to view specific plants, see how they’ve grown/spread/contributed to the property’s wildlife value and relate wild organisms’ presence or absence to the changes…

It’s definitely up to the project administrators, but you can send them a private message; it could be a choice to include them, but it could also be that they were unaware that they didn’t set quality grade as one of the project requirements.

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Star3 June 28, 2020, 6:33pm 3

See https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/when-is-a-plant-no-longer-considered-cultivated/12194

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