This number must be consistent with the number of plants listed for the community.

This variable is required for plants that are growing at the beginning of the simulation (lc_status = y).

This variable is required for plants that are growing at the beginning of the simulation (lc_status = y).

The name of the plant community is a primary key referenced by plnt_com in landuse.lum. All names in the plant.ini file must be unique.

The plant name is a foreign key referencing the primary key name in plants.plt.

This variable is required for plants that are growing at the beginning of the simulation (lc_status = y).

A plant community can consist of plants growing at the same time or plants growing in rotation.

The structure of the file plant.ini is different than that of most other SWAT+ input files. The first line for each plant community specifies how many plants there are in the community and what the initial year of the rotation is. It is followed by one line per plant in the community.