I will be going on vacation in a couple of weeks and there will be a lot of landscaped flowerbeds in the area, probably full of exotics. Is there any interest or need to add these observations to iNaturalist? Is there any other option other than captivate/cultivated to mark these types of observatio…

That is what I am trying to avoid doing!

I usually only bother with planted things if they’re going to be there for decades (e.g park and street trees) or I want to identify them for another observation (e.g leaf mines or pollinators on them). A couple of times I’ve done it because there’s few good references of them, and a couple of time…

[image] dysm: I’m a firm believer that if you hunker down and stay around one tree or bush or plant for even a few minutes, you should be able to in theory find multiple other living things on it I agree with this. About 1/3 of my observations of animals are doing exactly this in my family’s …

I just photographed every species planted in a pollinator garden at a visitor center in the Smoky Mountains. I haven’t uploaded any of these as observations yet but part of my motivation for doing this was to document what is cultivated in this spot as an FYI for myself and other identifiers in this…

I think a project is a good use for this. You could write a journal post for the project describing your motivation, what the project contains, and why.

@tommy_dye – Why don’t you want to mark the plants cultivated? If it’s because cultivated plants are slow to get ID’s? If so, please vote for the feature request to separate the cultivated/wild dimension from the RG/Needs ID dimension: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/make-captive-cultivated-not-au…

What are good apps for id’ing cultivated plants?

Recording landscaping plants

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natev May 15, 2024, 6:21pm 16

PictureThis, but there are many others. In my experience these other apps tend to struggle on wild plants but do very well on houseplants and typical garden/landscape plants.

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