World Plant Hardiness Zone Map

The first World Plant Hardiness Zone Map is available from the ADENEARTH's Plant Encyclopedia site.

All the various systems used to index plant hardiness across the globe have been brought together in one uniform scale of hardiness zones. This map is to be used as a tool for landscapers and gardeners globally and will be available in interactive form, free to the public, and associated with the open-authored wiki project ThePlantEncyclopedia.org.

Visitors to The Plant Encyclopedia will be able to zoom into their zone on the world map and discover cultivated plants that can be grown in their area of the world accurate to 50km sq. The Plant Encyclopedia also features search capabilities, allowing users to find plants through plant name, and various categories such as Tree, Shrub, Groundcover, or even Flower Colour.

The map was created using satellite thermal image data from multiple sources, which were gathered to track climate change. The created Aden Earth Zones were then correlated with the existing USDA Hardiness Zones, so that even novice gardeners can use the new map to reference information in their existing gardening books, or garden pot tags, et cetera.

Go to the Plant Encyclopedia Tab and click on the World Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Source: PRLog Press Release