Is there a general guideline for marking plants found in restoration projects? If a plant was planted as part of a restoration project but now reproduces on its own, should these still be casual? I have read some similar posts, but could not quite get the answer I was looking for.
Based on previous posts, its sounds like this is not that big a deal, as researchers will look into the quality of the data.
Still, I visited a restored site today (RBG - Coot’s Paradise) and did not feel right about uploading 10-20 species of plants from a restored site without getting some guidance.
But for how long? My restoration project has been going on for a decade. Even though we’re still bringing native plants in, I know most of them have propagated from older plants since we started.
Yes, a plant that was planted 100 years ago (or more) by humans is still cultivated and will always be so. A plant’s offspring (assuming they reproduced naturally and without humans intentionally directing the process) will generally be wild. An “exception” to this would be something like a garden bed - if the plants remain in the same location in a bed where humans intended and under human care, this would be cultivation (not wild). If the plants reproduce outside of the garden bed/human care, they would be wild.
OK, thank you. I think I am clearer on that now. As long as the plant is in the same location, then its considered ‘cultivated’, but if the offspring of a cultivated plant end up in a new location (without human help), then these individuals are considered wild.
So what if a bird, attracted by the seeded prairie plants, comes through and deposits seeds from a differnet location. Then can’t some of the plants in the cultivated prairie, now be wild?