Edit plant size and data

Klora’s plant library supplies the facts behind each species on your plan: mature width and height, light and soil preferences, water needs, hardiness zones, and other traits. If those facts do not match the plant or cultivar you are actually using, you can correct them.

The important distinction is between plant data and placement settings. Editing plant data changes what Klora knows about that species in your library. Editing a selected plant on the canvas changes only that particular placement.

Check a plant’s mature size

Open the Plant Library, choose Species, and find the plant. Use the information button on its card to open the plant details.

Under Mature Size, Klora shows the width and height it uses for the fully grown plant.

ScreenshotPlant mature sizeA plant detail page in the Klora library showing Mature Size with width and height.

Mature width is especially important in plan view: it determines the full-grown footprint you are reserving for the plant. Mature height also matters for the plant’s growth model and, for plants that cast shade, the sun model.

Edit mature width and height

ScreenshotEditing mature plant sizeThe Klora plant edit form showing Mature width and Mature height fields and the Save changes button.

Edit other plant data

The same edit form lets you correct more than size. Depending on the plant, you can edit:

• Common name, scientific name, cultivar, and plant category.
• Hardiness-zone range.
• Light requirements.
• Soil types and water needs.
• Traits such as native, evergreen, perennial, deer resistant, drought tolerant, pollinator friendly, or invasive.
• Notes and plant images.

At least a common name, one light level, and one soil type are required before the edited plant can be saved.

For built-in catalog plants, your changes are saved as corrections in your own library rather than rewriting Klora’s shared catalog. That means you can adapt a plant to the cultivar or source information you trust without changing the underlying catalog for everyone else.

Species data versus one placed plant

If the species data is wrong, edit the plant in the library. Examples include:

• A cultivar is listed as 8 feet wide but the cultivar you are using matures around 4 feet wide.
• The hardiness range is wrong.
• A plant is missing a light or soil condition it tolerates.
• The plant’s mature height or width is simply inaccurate.

If the species data is right but one individual is different, select that plant on the canvas and use its properties instead. Examples include:

• An existing shrub is only about five years into its growth.
• One tree should stay at Year 10 while the rest of the proposed planting is viewed at maturity.
• A placed plant needs a custom label, note, planting date, or other placement-specific setting.

See View plants at different maturity stages for the global growth view and per-plant Size / maturity overrides.

How mature size relates to the growth view

The mature dimensions in the plant library are the endpoint of Klora’s growth model. Year 1, Year 5, and Year 10 are smaller stages on the way to those mature dimensions.

Changing the global growth view therefore does not rewrite plant data. It asks Klora to show the design at a different point in its development. Editing Mature width or Mature height, by contrast, changes the species data that those stages are based on.

This is why a maturity override is not a good fix for bad plant data. If a shrub is cataloged at the wrong mature width, setting every placement to Year 5 may make the drawing look better today, but the mature plan will still be wrong.

Measured size for an existing tree

Some existing trees can carry a measured height or canopy width from a site survey. When a placed tree has measured dimensions, Klora uses those measurements instead of estimating its current size from the species data and growth stage.

The plant’s properties show the measured size and provide Use species size if you want to discard the measurement and return to the normal species-based growth model.

A measurement describes that individual tree. Editing the library’s mature size describes the species or cultivar. Keep the measurement when the individual tree is genuinely larger or smaller than the typical catalog value.

Plant size and purchase size are different

Do not confuse mature dimensions with Pot size in the selected plant’s properties.

Mature width and height describe how large the plant grows in the landscape and affect the design model. Pot size describes the nursery size you plan to purchase and is used for the Plants & materials list and pricing. Changing a 3-gallon plant to a 5-gallon purchase does not change its eventual mature footprint.

Next steps

• View plants at different maturity stages
• Find and place plants
• Select and edit objects