Accepted
Public domain, CC0, CC BY, and CC BY-SA photos with a traceable source page, author/credit where available, license label, license URL when provided, and local modification notes.
More databases, same legal filter.
AtHomeGrower can use additional photo databases, but citation alone is not permission. Every imported image must pass license, source, attribution, and modification checks before it appears on a plant card.
Rejected
All-rights-reserved, fair-use-only, unclear-license, NonCommercial, NoDerivatives, missing-source, social-media repost, and marketplace product images unless a separate approved API or written license permits use.
Approved source paths
These are allowed as provider pipelines only when each individual image passes the accepted-license rule.
Wikimedia Commons
Used now for local plant-card photos with explicit public-domain, CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA metadata.
Provider documentation
Used now for local plant-card photos with explicit public-domain, CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA metadata.
Provider documentation
Openverse
Approved as a discovery source only when the item-level license and source page verify commercial reuse and adaptation rights.
Provider documentation
Approved as a discovery source only when the item-level license and source page verify commercial reuse and adaptation rights.
Provider documentation
iNaturalist
Approved only for individual photos whose license is CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA; NonCommercial, NoDerivatives, and all-rights-reserved images are rejected.
Provider documentation
Approved only for individual photos whose license is CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA; NonCommercial, NoDerivatives, and all-rights-reserved images are rejected.
Provider documentation
Flickr
Approved through the Flickr API license metadata when the photo license is public domain, CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA.
Provider documentation
Approved through the Flickr API license metadata when the photo license is public domain, CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA.
Provider documentation
GBIF occurrence media
Approved only when occurrence/media records provide usable rights metadata and the source page can be credited.
Provider documentation
Approved only when occurrence/media records provide usable rights metadata and the source page can be credited.
Provider documentation