Hi, I was looking through iNat’s Compare tool, set it to “Filter by place” (you can do this by clicking on the place in the tool and clicking on the X next to it), and found 3 totally different species all called “Peruvian Lily”.
I’ve already flagged the taxon, but why are they all named the same thing? Was it just the algorithm giving them incredibly lazy names??
Disclaimer: I’m not an iNat Curator YET, so Idk if this would be appropriate for the Curators section.
No algorithm is used to generate common names? These are added by people, hopefully based off actual usage elsewhere. It is not uncommon for multiple species to have the same common name, for instance “robin” means something completely different depending on what continent you are in. I agree it’s a little unfortunate, and if you can find other common names for these species that demonstrate a similar level of established external usage it might be good to add those and set them as active instead
