[Feature Request]: Enable public searching by taxon-level characters (not just within checklists)

[themerekat]

Symbiota Portal Name

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Is your feature/tool request related to a problem? Please describe.

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Describe the solution you'd like.

E.g., ability to search for species that are "native to California" or "native to the U.S."
Could also be enacted as searching within species that are on a given list, and then people can curate that list.

Who else has expressed a desire for this feature/tool?

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When and how would this feature be used? What are some use cases?

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Additional context

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[ljwalker]

CCH2 user has also requested this in the context of the CNPS Rare Plant Inventory: https://rareplants.cnps.org/

Example: Restrict search results to rare species, including in map view.