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To find a plant, just type in the common name, or scientific name in the search box on the left and click on go. It should either bring up the plant you're interested in, or in some cases a list of plants that go by the same name. Plants are usually listed by scientific groupings of all the species of a genera. To put it simply, all four species of clivia are listed on the clivia page, from which you can click on the separate species articles. In some cases, when a plant is very widely known by a single common name, the plant is listed under that name.
To find a plant, just type in the common name, or scientific name in the search box on the left and click on go. It should either bring up the plant you're interested in, or in some cases a list of plants that go by the same name. Plants are usually listed by scientific groupings of all the species of a genera. To put it simply, all four species of clivia are listed on the clivia page, from which you can click on the separate species articles. In some cases, when a plant is very widely known by a single common name, the plant is listed under that name.
===How to read an article===
First the entire genus (eg. Muscari) is described, along with how to grow them, then the individual species (eg. Muscari armeniacum) are listed with some of their particular features. You can click on the species name in the list to go to the article specifically about that species of the plant. Wherever possible, zone information, plant height, width, and other information is provided for each species at the top of the article. If it's missing, you can click the edit tab at the top of the page and add it.
===How to edit an article===
Editing a page is very simple. Just click on the "Edit" tab on top of virtually every page, type what you need to, and click save! If there are formatting issues, don't worry too much about those, someone else can fix the formatting issues, and you'll quickly pickup what you need to when it comes to that yourself. For a quick intro see [[Help:Editing]] Some of the text is rather scientific and heavy, that's because of the source it came from. Here we are striving for a more readable and accessible text, so don't be intimidated at all to write in your own style, and to jump in and help rewrite the heavier text to simplify it and narrow it down to a gardeners needs.
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