I represent a public garden and am new to iNaturalist. I am trying to understand the value of adding our cultivated plants (meaning ones we planted) and wild plants (those plants that were here when we got here and are either native or naturalized). I will label things cultivated. But what I want to…

hello, and welcome! we’re glad to have you here. The primary purpose of iNat is to help connect people with the natural world. if uploading data on your cultivated plants will help you, or others, be curious and engaged with your surroundings, please share your observations :) there are many discu…

Here’s my take: What’s cultivated in your neighborhood is often wild in someone else’s. As long as they’re marked cultivated, I think it’s a good thing. But definitely add what’s in your woodlands. You might even get early warning of colonization by invasive non-natives. Having documentation of the…

I already made an inventory of a small botanical garden with iNat. You might be aware that iNat is kind of hiding observations of captive and cultivated organisms. In order to make these observations visible, in a way that staff and visitors can find them and interact with them, it seems to be a goo…

Also there is a direct correlation between the plants in the garden and the animals that occur there. If you ever do an insect survey the presence of some species may make no sense if you compare it to a list with only the wild plants, but make perfect sense when you realize large numbers of their h…

A garden provides an opportunity to gather quality ID photos. This will be useful later to those who are trying to ID wild specimens for whom good comparison pictures will be super helpful.

It can also be useful to link observations of cultivated plants that are hosts to wild fungi/lichens, mosses, insects, etc. I commonly observe a tree along with each lichen species living on it. @untermyergardensconservan I’ve led several lichen walks for the Connecticut–Westchester Mycological Ass…

That would be wonderful - I think I met you briefly on one of those walks! I was working and wished I could have joined your group. Jessica

One of my current goals is to get good photos showing leaf/flower/unique attributes, so I’m glad to hear that it will help make it useful for the iNaturalist community.

Like those two Aristolochia tomentosa? ;)

Value of public Garden adding cultivated species

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jtkindt January 23, 2020, 5:07pm 3

I think it is definitely interesting/useful to iNat users making observations of pollinators.

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