I’ve lived on our rural property that was built in the early 1950s for 20 years now. I inherited a lot of lovely perennials when we moved here. These flowers return year after year after year, and many varieties have escaped what used to be their tended gardens. I simply let them grow, enjoy their p…

I really have a bone to pick with those that are marking any kind of garden plant escape that they can’t fathom as anything other than cultivated as casual. It’s their bias and maybe lack of observation or reading descriptions. In the past 24 hours I’ve had to ping two curators about marking observa…

[image] mertensia: maybe lack of observation or reading descriptions. that’s what I had really wanted to hammer home. Pause, open an observation and read what the observer says, look at the map and don’t jump to conclusions or make universal assumptions. And 100%, a head’s up on invasives, …

An example of a tree that has still been “cultivated” for over 1000 years (maybe 2500 years, it is claimed). This is a sample of Platycladus orientalis in Uzbekistan now in the reserve, but no doubt was once planted by man. https://www.plantarium.ru/page/landscapes/point/1177.html http://agroturiz…

I visited a native plant restoration Area at Mount Umunhum (Calif. Bay Area). My understanding is the restoration area plan was careful to start with native species for that area. Looking at things now, a few years later, I can see that some shrubs appear to have been planted and others look minimal…

Most of my observations are from an area in Powassan that is known as The Pines. Most of the habitat is a feral red pine plantation that has not been managed in decades. Most of the red pines are undoubtedly survivors of the original planting but they have not been “cultivated” in a very long time, …

Find a young one, it will count as wild, I do it with most of trees I come by.

Red pine seedlings do poorly in shade or on organic soils so young ones don’t last long in or near an established forest. They need a fire to clear the way for them. Seedlings do show up at times but I’ve not seen one since I started on iNat in June, probably because I usually walk the same route on…

that feral or introduced discussion is running on an earlier thread.

When is a plant no longer considered "cultivated?"

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marina_gorbunova June 21, 2020, 5:43pm 76

If you see that there’re clearly new vegetative parts or new seedling+, then yes, you can mark them wild.

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When is a plant no longer considered "cultivated?"

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