Fuentes
De dónde reúne Plotwright el conocimiento sobre plantas
El catálogo de fuentes mantiene visibles las citas, las licencias y los límites de datos. Cada fuente tiene un papel: algunas aportan datos estructurados comunes, mientras que otras contribuyen consejos, candidatos de imagen o contexto que necesita revisión.
Cómo usamos estas fuentes
Los hechos repetibles —nombres, zonas de resistencia, estatus nativo, créditos de imagen y tamaños— se extraen de estas fuentes y se mantienen coherentes en todo el catálogo. Los consejos prácticos y las precauciones regionales siguen atribuidos a la fuente que los formuló, de modo que cada afirmación puede rastrearse, verificarse y actualizarse en lugar de diluirse en texto anónimo.
Canada Plant Hardiness
Natural Resources Canada - Fuente primaria
Canadian plant hardiness maps and related climate suitability tools, including recent 1991-2020 mapping and USDA-equivalent extreme minimum temperature maps.
Canadian hardiness zones
Canadian USDA-equivalent zone context
Climate suitability notes
Municipality or regional lookup context
GBIF
Global Biodiversity Information Facility - Fuente primaria
A biodiversity data network for occurrence records and species evidence, useful for distribution context and source trails.
Occurrence records
Observation/specimen evidence
Distribution context
Dataset citations
iNaturalist
iNaturalist Network and contributors - Fuente comunitaria
A community observation platform useful for observation context, phenology leads, and selected licensed plant photos.
Observation context
Phenology leads
Photo candidates
Regional presence signals
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database
University of Texas at Austin - Fuente curada
A native-plant-focused reference covering ~9,000 North American native species, with structured per-state native distribution and Xerces Society pollinator value flags integrated into each plant page.
Native plant identification and traits
State-level native distribution
Pollinator + wildlife value
Propagation and growing conditions
Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder
Missouri Botanical Garden - Fuente curada
A strong horticultural reference for garden plant profiles, photos, and care context, with specific image-use conditions.
Garden plant profiles
Care notes
Cultivar context
PlantFinder images
NatureServe Explorer
NatureServe - Fuente primaria
A continental conservation-status reference for plants, animals, and ecosystems, publishing per-subnation native flags and conservation ranks (G/N/S) for US states and Canadian provinces via a single-call public JSON API.
Per-subnation native vs introduced flag (finer than state-list intersections)
Conservation rank (G/N/S) at global, national, and subnational granularity
Stable elcode + ELEMENT_GLOBAL UID for cross-source pinning
Canadian province coverage symmetric with US state coverage
NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
NC State Extension - Fuente curada
A curated extension plant reference with horticultural traits, right-plant/right-place guidance, and Creative Commons image metadata.
Horticultural traits
Growing notes
Garden usage
Curated images
One Earth Bioregions & Ecoregions
One Earth - Fuente curada
Curated narrative profiles for the world’s ecoregions — geography, characteristic vegetation, climate, flagship species, and conservation status — built on the Dinerstein et al. framework. Plotwright’s primary source for ecoregion editorial summaries.
Ecoregion narrative descriptions
Characteristic vegetation + flagship species
Regional conservation context
Plotwright editorial synthesis
Plotwright - Fuente editorial
Unverified plant notes created inside Plotwright before a fact has been backed by a public record, extension source, or expert review.
Editorial review status
Unverified notes
Needs-source guidance
RESOLVE 2017 Terrestrial Ecoregions (Dinerstein et al.)
RESOLVE / Dinerstein et al., BioScience (2017) - Fuente primaria
The peer-reviewed 2017 map of the world’s 846 terrestrial ecoregions — successor to the WWF 2001 scheme — with each ecoregion’s biome, biogeographic realm, area, and "Nature Needs Half" protection tier. The structural foundation of every Plotwright ecoregion page.
Ecoregion boundaries + names (the /regions roster)
Biome + biogeographic realm classification
Nature Needs Half conservation tier (1-4)
Unsplash
Unsplash and contributors - Fuente comunitaria
A stock-photo source for free-to-use images that can support early public pages when each photo URL and credit is retained.
Stock/free photos
Hero images
Starter plant-page media
Commercial-use candidates
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
USDA Agricultural Research Service and PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University - Fuente primaria
The U.S. hardiness-zone reference for average annual extreme minimum temperature, with map graphics, GIS data, and ZIP-code lookup.
U.S. hardiness zones
ZIP-code zone lookup
Map context
Minimum-temperature caveats
USDA PLANTS Database
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service - Fuente primaria
A public plant record system for U.S. and territory plant identity, distribution, status, wetland, invasive, noxious, and conservation data.
Taxonomic identity
U.S. and territory distribution
Wetland and conservation characteristics
Invasive, noxious, threatened, and endangered status leads
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Foundation and contributors - Fuente comunitaria
A media repository with public-domain and freely licensed images, useful when per-file attribution and license metadata are preserved.
Plant photos
Botanical illustrations
License metadata
Image source trails
Wikipedia (ecoregion articles)
Wikimedia Foundation - Fuente comunitaria
Community-maintained encyclopedia articles used as a corroborating cross-check for ecoregion descriptions — geography, vegetation, and climate — alongside the primary RESOLVE and curated One Earth sources.
Cross-checking ecoregion descriptions
Geographic + administrative extent
Pointers to primary references in article citations