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bonitin said:I realize I'm given more work to the moderators by filling in Plant heights in cm, as that is what I know, sometimes there can be created confusing info like on the data info of Iris siberica where I just noticed that Plant height is given in inches while the Plant spread given in cm..
Species Iris (Iris sibirica)
Anybody any ideas on this?

I agree, the same unit of measure would make more sense. My guess is that 2 different people entered the data maybe?

I guess the metric system is used in most countries. In the U.S. though, most folks are resistant to it's use. While conversion charts are readily available online, I think forcing metric measurement in the database would discourage a lot of Americans from entering the data at all. Any many visitors might not find that user-friendly either.

Most of our members do seem to be in the U.S.

Karen