Platform: Mac App version number, if a mobile app issue: Browser, if a website issue: Safari Version 26.3.1 (21623.2.7.111.2 URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/357065265 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/357065197 Scr…

It actually wasn’t letting me enter anything in the initial upload screen. I had to go back and edit them later.

That would seem to be a separate bug than what is reported here. If you can document and fill out the template, it would probably be best to submit as such.

Are the links and photos I provided in the initial post helpful or do you need additional information? I will say that at our event today, we only had one strange suggestion (poison oak suggested for Angelica Lucida…which is interesting because my friend had poison oak suggested for Glehnia yesterd…

The issue I pointed out for the first observation also affects the second. It is not covered by a hexagon, and if you relax the ‘only nearby suggestion’ then C. soldanella is first in the list. So the two photos/links provided do not suggest there is an issue.

[image] pnwcoasthiker: Are the links and photos I provided in the initial post helpful or do you need additional information? As cooperj said, the issues in your original post are not due to a bug, but due to a known deficienty with the geomodel (and any model will have deficiencies). I’d be …

Ah, okay. Here you go. This is the obs. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/357270028 It is now working correctly under suggestions on my browser (but it has an ID now, so not sure if that might make a difference). I’ve attached the screen shot of what she saw in the app when it occurred. S…

I just wanted to add that I’ve done a lot of IDing last night and some today and have not had the same issue where it is suggesting things that are not even close without including the correct item in the list at all. I’ve also seen less IDs from observers that are way off (not even close in looks, …

I can replicate the Trillium suggestion when I put that photo in the uploader and give it those coordinates. I just looked at quite a few pacific trillium photos on iNat and am not seeing anything like this ant photo. Closest would be insects on the light colored petals, eg https://www.inaturalist.o…

Thank you for your reply and for looking into it.

This one could be a candidate too? https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/358432818

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Just to note the hexagon/expected nearby problem has been raised … again. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/geomodel-hexagons-still-lacking-basic-error-checking

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