Your phone has a built-in plant identifier - here’s how to use it (2024)
It’s a problem any aesthetically-minded person has regularly: coming across a plant and wanting to add it to the collection, but having no idea what it is.
Is it native? Can it survive indoors? Can I get it at my local nursery?
Aside from dusting off the old plant encyclopedia, for many people, the solution lies in apps.
How Plant ID Apps Work. Most of these apps work by allowing you to snap or upload photos of the unknown plant that can then be analyzed and provide a listing of plants they could potentially be, often with a percentage of confidence in the identification.
The PlantSnap plant identifier makes it much easier to find out! Just take a picture using the app and our database will find all the information about it.
PictureThis. As a plant collector, avid gardener, and botanist, Ashley Nussman-Berry's top recommendation is an app that simply needs a photo to identify and assess your plant's health. “PictureThis is a great app for plant identification and detection of plant issues.
(WHTM) – If you have an iPhone, you have a built-in plant identification feature – no extra apps taking up storage on your phone needed. There are lots of apps that identify different plant species, but there's no need for them if you have an iPhone.
PictureThis® identifies 1,000,000+ plants every day with 98% accuracy - better than most human experts. Get your gardening questions answered and become a “green thumb” with the plant identification power of PictureThis!
If you are dealing with a flowering plant in bloom, identification can be as easy as counting the number of the flower's petals, sepals, pistils, or stamens. You can note these quantities and combinations to look up later, and cross reference with other information you have gathered.
We test five popular and free identification applications for plants using 857 professionally identified images of 277 species from 204 genera. Across all applications, 85% of images were identified correctly in the top five suggestions, and 69% were correct with the first suggestion.
Overall, these apps are much more accurate in identifying leaf photos as compared to bark photos, and while these apps offer consistently accurate identifications to the genus-level, there seems to be little accuracy in successfully identifying photos to the species level.
Fourteen Wirecutter staffers and their families tested seven apps (all of them available free of charge) across nine states, in both rural and urban locations, using Android and Apple phones. If you simply want an app that will quickly and accurately identify plants, we recommend PlantNet Plant Identification.
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You can learn more about an image or the objects around you with Google Lens. For example, you can take a photo of a plant and use it to search for info or other similar images.
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