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PlantNet app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 4544 ratings )
Reference Education
Developer: Cirad-France
Free
Current version: 3.19.8, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 15 Feb 2013
App size: 72.98 Mb

Pl@ntNet is an application that allows you to identify plants simply by photographing them with your smartphone. Very useful when you dont have a botanist on hand!

Pl@ntNet is also a great citizen science project: all the plants you photograph are collected and analysed by scientists around the world to better understand the evolution of plant biodiversity and to better preserve it.

Pl@ntNet allows you to identify and better understand all kinds of plants living in nature: flowering plants, trees, grasses, conifers, ferns, vines, wild salads, cacti (and many more).

Pl@ntNet can also identify a large number of cultivated plants (in parks and gardens) but this is not its primary purpose. We especially need Pl@ntNet’s users to inventory the wild plants, those that you can observe in nature, but also those that grow on the sidewalks of cities or in the middle of your vegetable garden!

The more visual information you give to Pl@ntNet about the plant you are observing, the more accurate the identification will be. There are indeed many plants that look alike from afar and it is sometimes small details that distinguish two species of the same genus.

Flowers, fruits and leaves are the most characteristic organs of a species and it is them that should be photographed first. But any other detail can be useful, such as thorns, buds or hair on the stem. A photograph of the whole plant is also very useful information, but it is often not sufficient to allow a reliable identification.

At present, Pl@ntNet makes it possible to recognize about 20,000 species. We are still a long way from the 360,000 species living on earth, but Pl@ntNet is getting richer every day thanks to the contributions of the most experienced users among you.

Dont be afraid to contribute yourself! Your observation will be reviewed by the community and may one day join the photo gallery illustrating the species in the application.

The new version of Pl@ntNet released in January 2019 includes many improvements and new features:
-The ability to filter recognized species by genus or family.
-The differentiated data revision that gives more weight to users who have demonstrated the most skills (in particular the number of species observed, validated by the community).
-The re-identification of shared observations, whether yours or those of other users of the application.
-The multi-flora identification that allows you to search for the photographed plant in all the flora of the application and not only in the one you have selected. Very useful when you are not sure what flora to look for.
-The selection of your favorite floras to access them more quickly.
-The navigation at different taxonomic levels in image galleries.
-The mapping of your observations.
-Links to many factsheets.

The web version of the application is also available at the following address: https://identify.plantnet.org/

Pros and cons of PlantNet app for iPhone and iPad

PlantNet app good for

Identified right away virginia creeper in Canada, did the job very quickly.
It did work sometimes, but not always. Please add plants in North America.
Relax folks if "it doesnt work". Theyve only set it up to recognize French flora. Theyre still setting up the myriad of other plants worldwide. :)

Some bad moments

I was excited to start using this app until I downloaded it and it was not available in Canada. I hope they open it up to North America as it is a great idea for an app.
I used this app four times in a garden with labeled plants. It missed all four times. Deleting.
I tried identifying multiple plants and flowers from different habitats and it didnt recognize any of them, and doesnt even have North America as a possible habitat to look up plants under. I guess its ok if youre fine with 1/30 plants even being listed and scrolling through dozens of plants that look nothing like yours.
If you are looking for North American species, youre out of luck. They have projects for Western Europe, North Africa, Indian Ocean and French Guyana in South America. The intro even says the app only works for plants of the French metropolitan flora. If I can ever use this, I might up my rating. For now, its useless.
It incorrectly identified an observation. And I was able figure out what it was but it wouldnt let me correct it. You really need a North America version.
Could not identify a maple leaf. Couldnt identify poison ivy. And why does it need my location even if Im not using the app???

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