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      "scientific_name": "Mertensia bakeri",
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      "scientific_name": "Mertensia bella",
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      "scientific_name": "Mertensia brevistyla",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-brevistyla/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia campanulata",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-ciliata/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia coronata",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Mertensia cusickii",
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      "url": null
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Mertensia dahurica",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Mertensia davurica",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-davurica/"
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      "scientific_name": "Mertensia eastwoodiae",
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      "documented": false,
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia franciscana",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-franciscana/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia grahamii",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Mertensia humilis",
      "authorship": "Rydb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215344",
      "slug": "mertensia-humilis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia kamczatica",
      "authorship": "DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215083",
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      "photographs_found": 1,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia lanceolata",
      "authorship": "(Pursh) DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215345",
      "slug": "mertensia-lanceolata",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-lanceolata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia lateriflora",
      "authorship": "Greene",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001237845",
      "slug": "mertensia-lateriflora",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Mertensia lineariloba",
      "authorship": "Rydb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001235686",
      "slug": "mertensia-lineariloba",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Mertensia longiflora",
      "authorship": "Greene",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215348",
      "slug": "mertensia-longiflora",
      "photographs_found": 86,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-longiflora/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia longipedunculata",
      "authorship": "(A.Nelson) Nazaire & L.Hufford",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia macdougalii",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0001215349",
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      "photographs_found": 8,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-macdougalii/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia maritima",
      "authorship": "(L.) Gray",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000368197",
      "slug": "mertensia-maritima",
      "photographs_found": 180,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-maritima/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia mexicana",
      "authorship": "L.O.Williams",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001242317",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia meyeriana",
      "authorship": "J.F.Macbr.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001216211",
      "slug": "mertensia-meyeriana",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia nevadensis",
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      "photographs_found": 4,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-nevadensis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia nivalis",
      "authorship": "(S.Watson) Rydb.",
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      "slug": "mertensia-nivalis",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia oreophila",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000368187",
      "slug": "mertensia-oreophila",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia ovata",
      "authorship": "Rydb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000368188",
      "slug": "mertensia-ovata",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia pallasii",
      "authorship": "(Ledeb.) G.Don",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215798",
      "slug": "mertensia-pallasii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia parvifolia",
      "authorship": "(L.O.Williams) Nazaire & L.Hufford",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001425544",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia platyphylla",
      "authorship": "A.Heller",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215213",
      "slug": "mertensia-platyphylla",
      "photographs_found": 4,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-platyphylla/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia pratensis",
      "authorship": "A.Heller",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000368222",
      "slug": "mertensia-pratensis",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia pterocarpa",
      "authorship": "(Turcz.) Tatew. & Ohwi",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000368223",
      "slug": "mertensia-pterocarpa",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia rivularis",
      "authorship": "DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000368210",
      "slug": "mertensia-rivularis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia serrulata",
      "authorship": "DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001327843",
      "slug": "mertensia-serrulata-dc",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Mertensia serrulata",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia sibirica",
      "authorship": "G.Don",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215800",
      "slug": "mertensia-sibirica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia simplicissima",
      "authorship": "G.Don",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215802",
      "slug": "mertensia-simplicissima",
      "photographs_found": 5,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-simplicissima/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia sinica",
      "authorship": "Kamelin",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000746751",
      "slug": "mertensia-sinica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia stylosa",
      "authorship": "(Fisch.) DC.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000368146",
      "slug": "mertensia-stylosa",
      "photographs_found": 3,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-stylosa/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia subcordata",
      "authorship": "Greene",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215215",
      "slug": "mertensia-subcordata",
      "photographs_found": 27,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-subcordata/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia tweedyi",
      "authorship": "Rydb.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000368153",
      "slug": "mertensia-tweedyi",
      "photographs_found": 11,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-tweedyi/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia umbratilis",
      "authorship": "Greenm.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215216",
      "slug": "mertensia-umbratilis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia virginica",
      "authorship": "(L.) Pers. ex Link",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215084",
      "slug": "mertensia-virginica",
      "photographs_found": 2457,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/mertensia-virginica/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Mertensia viridis",
      "authorship": "(A.Nelson) A.Nelson",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001215505",
      "slug": "mertensia-viridis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    }
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  "evidence_gate": {
    "rule": "at least 3 photographs licensed for commercial use",
    "rationale": "This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species below the gate is listed here rather than given a page of its own."
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "World Flora Online Plant List",
      "note": "accepted names, authorities, classification",
      "license": "CC0",
      "url": "https://www.worldfloraonline.org/",
      "retrieved": "2026-07-12"
    }
  ],
  "license": {
    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/mertensia/"
  }
}