Does anyone have a go to source for plant information (real world, not DF)? Wikipedia isn't that helpful as most information on a given plant is about how different species were cultivated. Or is there a mod that has more realistic plant growing seasons/lengths/biomes?
welcome to research hell, suffer as I have hahahahaha
that said, between google-provided research papers and ancient colonial accounts transcribed on project gutenberg, I did run into this little database on tropical plants http://tropical.theferns.info/
So aggravating, that site does help a bit though. Thinking I might just forget about real world plants all together and use nothing but custom plants.
EDIT: Nevermind, that is even more work trying to think up names for everything. You think it wouldn't be hard to figure out where and when plants grow naturally. I'm thinking I might just limit crops based on a "biome quota", so you have about the same number of available plants in each Biome, but they are varied. For instance strawberries could grow in grassland or savannah, but I will limit them to forest biomes (which is where wild strawberries were most common), and cranberries can grow in a lot of places, but do best in very wet areas so limit those to marshes. Won't be incredibly realistic, but it will be better than being able to grow practically everything during every season