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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Document the `norm` parameter for {func}`~scanpy.pl.embedding` and related scatter plotting functions {smaller}`zethson`
diff --git a/src/scanpy/plotting/legacy/_docs.py b/src/scanpy/plotting/legacy/_docs.py
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--- a/src/scanpy/plotting/legacy/_docs.py
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@@ -116,7 +116,9 @@
 vcenter
     The value representing the center of the color scale. Useful for diverging colormaps.
     The format is the same as for `vmin`.
-    Example: ``sc.pl.umap(adata, color='TREM2', vcenter='p50', cmap='RdBu_r')``\
+    Example: ``sc.pl.umap(adata, color='TREM2', vcenter='p50', cmap='RdBu_r')``
+norm
+    Custom color normalization object from matplotlib. See :ref:`colormapnorms` for details.\
 """
 
 doc_vboundnorm = """\