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Garden Tech: 10 Essential Flower Apps to ID Plants and Leaves - Gardenista
Flower apps and plant ID tools keep getting better. Here’s a roundup of 10 mobile apps to identify wildflowers, trees, and houseplants.
Photography by Finding Species via Leafsnap.
Leafsnap
The high-resolution images were created by the conservation organization.
From Top to Bottom are Chinese Fringetree, Chinese Toon, and Chinkapin Oak. (Coincidentally, Leafsnap was developed by my friend Peter Belhumeur, a researcher at Columbia University.)
Pl@ntNet
An interactive plant ID app, Pl@ntNet allows you to take photos of plant parts (such as bark, leaf, or flower) and upload them to compare with images in the app’s botanical databases to find the closest matches.
Flowerida
An app to identify Florida wildflowers filtering them by such characteristics as number of petals and bloom color Flowerida is 99 cents and optimized for...
...iPhone 5 I have 92 images in the app so far with another dozen or so that I ve identified but haven t added yet
From Top to Bottom are Cornelian Cherry, Cucumbertree Magnolia, and Downy Serviceberry.
SMM Wildflowers
The Santa Monica Mountains in Southern California has 250 square miles of parks and open space preserves and is one of the most popular destinations in the state for hikers.
Garden Compass Plant/Disease Identifier
With free app Garden Compass Plant/Disease Identifier, you can take a photo of a problem plant–a yellow leaf, a troubling spot, a scaly stem–and upload it to ID the disease and get recommendations for curing it.
A series of 23 mobile app Audubon Guides on flora and fauna includes Audubon Wildflowers, a comprehensive field guide to North American wildflowers.
Audubon Wildflowers
From Top to Bottom, Edible Fig, Empress Tree, and English Elm.
The Ultimate Guide to House Plants
The Ultimate Guide to House Plants is free but a $3.99 expansion pack is necessary to unlock all its features. The app has more than 1,000 photos to help you ID and care for houseplants.
Developed for Android, FlowerChecker is a plant ID service that allows you to upload a photo and have it identified by a team of humans who charge $1 per identification (one free trial per user).
FlowerChecker
PlantSnapp
PlantSnapp’s, developed by a 23-year-old UK-based amateur botanist, relies on a network of horticultural experts to identify more than 6,000 plants through photos you upload–and recommend a UK nursery that stocks it.
From Top to Bottom, Sweet Bay Magnolia, Sweetgum, and Swiss Pine.
NatureGate
Updated in March 2014, free NatureGate requires no Internet connection after you download a Flower Identification Tool for more than 700 species.
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