All kind of things grow uninvited in my flower pots. Yet, because I define them as captive/cultivated, you assign them a Casual grade, not Research grade. These are wild plants, damn it!!! Just because they happen to be self-seeded in my flowerpots, you disregard my observations. This is a serious flaw with your algorithm.
I don’t mark them as captive or cultivatwed. Because they were neither captive neither cultivated. That they are growing in a flowerpot… means they arrived there either on air, mistake, contamination or anything else. But not captive. Dont mark them like that.
? You can counter an existing Not Wild vote with your own - Yes, it is Wild. You can also leave a note or comment for identifiers - that you did NOT deliberately plant this
I would suggest you might be misunderstanding the meaning of “not wild” for iNaturalist purposes. It is my understanding that this categorization depends on human intent and action, not the site or environment, per se. The site where a given plant germinates and grows does not define whether it is wild or not, even if that site is a man-made environment or vessel. Volunteer species germinating in the absence of human intention, such as seeds or contaminant species in a seed mix, are “wild”.
A useful example would be some garden plant (flower, shrub, or tree) which produces viable offspring which then colonize nearby areas. The original plant is “not wild”, but the subsequent generations, if they appear to be viable populations, would be defined as “wild”.
The exception would be if some unintended species germinates in a pot or garden and you tend it to promote its growth or even replant it into its own container. Those, of course, with such human intervention, would be considered “not wild” even if their origin was unintended.
You may be interested in the forum discussion here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/make-captive-cultivated-not-automatically-no-id-needed/112
All weeds are by definition wild. If you mark them cultivated, they become crop or a pot plant.
The algorithm works just fine, you could change the title to something less dramatic.
Well, there’s your problem…
There’s a toggle option to label each of your observations as Captive/Cultivated OR Wild. If you think they’re wild, then don’t toggle the option to Captive/Cultivated.