attributions
Cite your sources.
This site stands on the shoulders of giants. This is where we give credit where it's due. Spot something unattributed? Let us know.
Images
The plant photography comes from the naturalist community at iNaturalist. The site currently serves 2195 photographs by 1410 photographers, each under the Creative Commons license its author chose. Every photograph shows its author and license in the image viewer, on the plant pages and on the safe plants list, and in the images field of plants.json.
- CC BY: 272 photographs
- CC BY-NC: 1351 photographs
- CC BY-NC-ND: 117 photographs
- CC BY-NC-SA: 228 photographs
- CC BY-ND: 9 photographs
- CC BY-SA: 163 photographs
- CC0: 34 photographs
- Public domain: 21 photographs
Icons and type
- The animal icons derive from OpenMoji emoji, redrawn as single color line art. License: CC BY-SA 4.0.
- The lotus placeholder, the filter icon and the map pin derive from Tabler Icons. License: MIT.
- The display font is Fredoka by Milena Brandão and Hafontia. License: SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- The potted plant icons in the logo and on the safe plants page come from the aloe vera icon family on Magnific, used under a Freepik premium license.
Data Sources
- ASPCA primed the first dataset and provided most of the common name and symptom data, along with the safe plants baseline. Every record is checked against the clinical signs on the ASPCA page for the same plant. The ASPCA list is © ASPCA and carries no open license, so we cite it and link to it, and we publish no text from it.
- The Guide to Poisonous Plants from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University provided clinical signs by body system and the animals affected. It is the second source each record is checked against. The guide is © Colorado State University and carries no open license, so we cite it and link to it. We publish no text from it: each record holds only our own symptom names.
- iNaturalist provided the photography, licensing and attribution data.
- Wikipedia provided the scientific classification data, the plant descriptions and the toxicity notes. This text is under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Wikidata provided the identifiers that connect each plant to the other databases. Wikidata data is CC0.
- GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, provided extra vernacular names, native ranges and the countries with the most wild observations.
- The USDA PLANTS database provided the duration and the growth habit data. USDA data is public domain.
- Natural Earth provided the country boundaries for the range minimaps. Natural Earth data is in the public domain.