Value of cultivated plant observations

[AdamWargon]

My understanding is that cultivated plants do have tremendous value, and are welcome on iNaturalist, as long as they are marked as cultivated.

@cthawley

Just a quick note that casual/cultivated observations still are available to scientists - they can be and are downloaded from iNat itself and sometimes used for research. They just aren’t exported to GBIF which has expressed the view that they don’t want to import a lot of cultivated/captive organisms. So how cultivated plants (and other captive/non-wild organisms) are treated as data is an issue that extends beyond iNat itself.

With regard to the City Nature Challenge, including cultivated plants contributes to identifier burnout, which has been discussed in other threads.