Plant Identification App!

Click here to open an article at NYT's Wirecutter titled "The Best Plant Identification App."

To identify a plant, you first take a picture of it by tapping the camera symbol in the app’s bottom navigation bar, which calls up a big circle with a camera on it labeled “Touch to identify,” with a smaller gallery circle right beside it. Touch the camera and up pops potential identifications, with comparable pictures from other users and a percentage that represents the probability that the app got the right species.

You can press the “i” at the corner to get the plant’s family, its genus, its common name(s), its International Union for Conservation of Nature status (that is, how at risk of extinction it may be), and links to any additional information the app can find. At the top of the app, you can navigate to the plant’s Wikipedia page and other users’ observations. You can log in to record your findings or add them to “groups,” if you wish to share them or make them public. But the app is also easy to use without logging in.