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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum crassum",
      "authorship": "Renvoize",
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      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum fuscescens",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum incompletum",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum minarum",
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      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum nudipes",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum nutans",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/sorghastrum-nutans/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum pellitum",
      "authorship": "(Hack.) Parodi",
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      "slug": "sorghastrum-pellitum",
      "photographs_found": 3,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/sorghastrum-pellitum/"
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum pogonostachyum",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum pohlianum",
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      "slug": "sorghastrum-pohlianum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum scaberrimum",
      "authorship": "(Nees) Herter",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900111",
      "slug": "sorghastrum-scaberrimum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum secundum",
      "authorship": "(Elliott) Nash",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900112",
      "slug": "sorghastrum-secundum",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/sorghastrum-secundum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum setosum",
      "authorship": "(Griseb.) Hitchc.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900113",
      "slug": "sorghastrum-setosum",
      "photographs_found": 10,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/sorghastrum-setosum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum stipoides",
      "authorship": "(Kunth) Nash",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900114",
      "slug": "sorghastrum-stipoides",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum tisserantii",
      "authorship": "Clayton",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900117",
      "slug": "sorghastrum-tisserantii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Sorghastrum viride",
      "authorship": "Swallen",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000900120",
      "slug": "sorghastrum-viride",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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    "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"
    }
  ],
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    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/sorghastrum/"
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}