Plotwright in extension offices, master-gardener programs, and classrooms

Plant pages cite individual fields, not just the whole page. Heat-tolerance came from NC State; native-distribution came from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center; photos cite Wikimedia Commons with the original Creative Commons license and photographer. The /sources catalog enumerates every source family Plotwright uses with citation guidance, license notes, and isolated threads.

Every plant page renders a ready-to-paste page-level citation in three academic formats. Page-level citation treats Plotwright as the aggregating publisher and the catalog page as the cited artifact. Per-fact upstream sources stay visible above for cases where a single research-grade citation is more appropriate than the curated page.

Hardiness zones are a moving target. Every plant detail page shows current and projected zone fit with confidence bands. The /futures interactive widget lets students see which plants in their region are climate-resilient, currently suited only, or newly possible by mid-century — a tangible lesson in zone shift.

Plotwright is web-first and static-export-served — every plant, ecoregion, source, and wildlife page is deep-linkable and works on whatever device a student arrives with. No account or paywall to access the catalog. URLs are stable: a syllabus link to /plants/quercus-rubra today still works next semester.

Send students to /futures, have them enter a city, screenshot the "Newly possible by 2070" bucket. Discuss which species their region may gain or lose under the current-trajectory scenario.

Pick an ecoregion at /regions, browse the native-plant intersection and wildlife your native plants support, cite specific plant pages in the project report using the "Cite this page" APA / MLA output.

Filter the catalog by "Supports monarchs" + "Hosts specialist lepidoptera," compose a regional pollinator border, then walk through the /wildlife/[slug] pages for each supported species to ground the design in ecology.

For each plant fact a student wants to use, open the field-level citation to see the upstream source (NC State, LBJ, USDA), evaluate the source’s credibility, and decide whether to cite Plotwright as an aggregator or the upstream source directly.