The project
About this site
Illa suum, quamvis radice tenetur,
vertitur ad Solem, mutataque servat amorem
Metamorphoses, Book IV — Ovid
The site
Piante Spontanee comes from the curiosity to study and recognise plants: stopping along a path, taking a photo, looking up the name of a species based on its characteristics.
The photos collected over time became a catalogue, useful for comparing species and keeping track of what's been found.
For any enquiry: info@piante-spontanee.it
The photographs
All the photographs on the site are taken by the author in the field. Photographs and site content may be freely reused for non-commercial purposes, provided the source is credited (piante-spontanee.it) and any derivative works are distributed under the same licence, under the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.
The botanical sheets
The descriptive texts of the botanical sheets were produced with the assistance of artificial intelligence from the following scientific sources, all owned by the author or consulted in their official online versions:
- — Pignatti S. Flora d'Italia, 2ª edizione, Edagricole, 2017
- — Arrigoni P.V. Flora analitica della Toscana, Edizioni Polistampa, 2018
- — Arrigoni P.V. Flora dell'Isola di Sardegna, Carlo Delfino Editore, 2006
- — Acta Plantarum
- — World Flora Online (WFO)
- —Wikipedia
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