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What the descriptions on our plant pages are made of, who wrote them, and what you may do with them.
Every botanical description on a plant page is text written by Wikipedia contributors, retrieved from English Wikipedia on 17 October 2026. Where an article exists for the exact species, we use it. Where only a broader article exists, the page is labelled as a genus overview. Where nothing can be matched — hybrids and seed mixtures especially — the page states that the description is unverified instead of inventing one.
Wikipedia text is published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). That license permits commercial use provided the attribution and share-alike conditions are met. Every plant page links to the license itself, and the archive records it as CC BY-SA 4.0.
Under each description you will find the contributing authors named as "Wikipedia contributors", a link to the source article, a link to the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, and a link to the exact revision of that article we copied. The retrieval date is held in the description archive, so any statement can be traced back to the version it came from.
The license asks that you indicate whether the text was changed. We copy only the opening summary of each article, so every description is shortened — each page states that the text was edited for length. We do not rewrite botanical claims or add growing advice that the source does not make.
Share-alike applies to the description text itself: if you republish our plant descriptions, you must credit the contributors and pass CC BY-SA 4.0 on with them. It does not reach the rest of this shop — prices, photographs, layout, catalog structure and the growing journal remain our own work.
Reusing Wikipedia text does not mean Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, or any editor endorses Sylva or the seeds we list.
USDA PLANTS (public domain), Kew’s Plants of the World Online (CC BY), World Flora Online, Tropicos and iNaturalist were reviewed as possible description sources. Wikipedia remains the source for now. Botanical order and family placements in the catalog are separate records looked up from public taxonomic data and are not part of these descriptions.
Open a plant page and follow its Source revision link: it shows the exact version of the article the text was taken from. Plant pages are reachable from the species index.
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