Feature? Foraging invasive species
It would be helpful to have a categorization for invasive species. I think it would encourage people to go out and decrease the population of invasive plants by foraging from them.
For example, japanese honeysuckle is invasive where I am, and once I found out that I could forage the flowers, I picked them, enjoyed some honeysuckle jelly, and removed the vine at the same time!
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Jesse Feral Foraging
Oct 23, 2025
Now the species page has a filter that you can use to look at invasive/native species! Make sure you update to the newest version for this feature!
Jesse Feral Foraging
Aug 25, 2025
Oh, we could also add this to the ‘species’ page. That should be fairly straightforward. I’ll work on getting that up this week!
Jesse Feral Foraging
Aug 20, 2025
I like this!
Currently, we show invasive species as a “Conservation Status” level of 0 in the app and denote it as an invasive species in the overview text. We could make it clearer in that setting with an icon or something that it is invasive.
Are there any other parts of the app that you’d like to see indicate a species is invasive?
joel@dview.us
Aug 27, 2025
I would like to see some indication of a plant's invasiveness on the main list.
chris@keeg.org
Aug 20, 2025
I agree with this. I live in Utah and we have Russian Olives trees all over the valley, especially by our rivers and I'm just waiting for them to start ripening to go out and harvest a bunch. I've heard they're not the tastiest of fruit, but they're so plentiful that it would be nice to at least try them.