[3] Since March 2024, the website displays AI-generated predictions of the extinction risk for each plant.
[5] The database contains information of the world's flora that was gathered in the past 250 years of botanical research.
It aims to make data available from projects that no longer have an online presence or were never externally available.
POWO has information on taxonomy, identification, distribution, traits, threat status and use of plants worldwide.
[6] As of September 2024[update], POWO contained 1,433,000 global plant names, 531,800 detailed descriptions, and 400,900 images.