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      "name": "World Flora Online Plant List",
      "note": "accepted name, authority, classification",
      "license": "CC0",
      "url": "https://www.worldfloraonline.org/",
      "retrieved": "2026-07-12"
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      "name": "iNaturalist",
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      "url": "https://www.inaturalist.org/",
      "retrieved": "2026-06-27"
    },
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      "name": "USDA PLANTS Database",
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      "license": "public domain",
      "url": "https://plants.usda.gov/",
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      "name": "Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16)",
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      "license": "CC BY 3.0",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.15468/6h8ucr",
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      "status": "not_published",
      "reason": "Not published anywhere on this site. Every care claim we could make cheaply would be an unsourced enum, which is what the previous version of this site did and why it was deleted."
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      "field": "toxicity",
      "status": "not_published",
      "reason": "Not published. The widely copied list is a copyrighted compilation restricted to noncommercial use, and we will not scrape it. A sourced toxicity dataset is being built from primary literature and is not ready."
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    "note": "This document is licensed CC BY 4.0. The PHOTOGRAPHS it links are licensed individually and separately: each carries its own license and license_url, and those terms govern. Underlying taxonomy is CC0 (World Flora Online); native range is CC BY 3.0 (Kew)."
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