PlantNet 4+

Plant Identification

Cirad-France

Designed for iPad

    • Free

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Description

With the Pl@ntNet app, identify one plant from a picture, and be part of a citizen science project on plant biodiversity.

Pl@ntNet is an application that allows you to identify plants simply by photographing them with your smartphone. Very useful when you don't 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.

Don't 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/

What’s New

Version 3.20.6

Spot it, log it! Use the new 'observed' filter with an eye icon to keep track of what you've seen. Autofill locality information locally on the device, and explore nearby species directly from the explorer! Enjoy our refreshed UI with landscape mode.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
5.2K Ratings

5.2K Ratings

Conchster ,

Most accurate of those I’ve tried

I was getting tired of the app that I was previously using to identify plants - that app started identifying everything as a dicot. I download it half a dozen plant identification apps. Some of them wanted me to sign up for a trial before they would let me try them out; I’m not partial to that. Others would freely let me try them out, and failed miserably on the various plants in my yard.

This app correctly identified just about everything, and it didn’t asked me to sign up for anything in advance. The only thing I think that it did not get was a very tiny sprout it was barely above the dirt line. Even then, it gave a plausible guess.

Another thing I like is that it lists possible plans in order with the percentage certainty that it estimates. I much appreciate that rather than just some wild random guess. Finally it has a pallet where you can tell it to identify either the plant or the bark or the fruit or the flower that happens to show in the photo being able to identify a plant for instance by its bark I think it’s great. I’ve only been using this app for an hour so there might be some nasty‘s in store but so far it’s a no-brainer I’m using this from now on.

Christoph the third ,

Great accurate App! So impressed!

I don’t ever write reviews for apps at all but I just had to for this one! I have been searching for an accurate informative plant id app recently and tried several different ones. I decided to test each app with plants I already own and know for sure what they are. One app after another ID’d every single plant wrongly, sometimes to a ridiculous level. I was gonna give up and then tried this one. Every single one of my known plants was identified correctly immediately! After so many failed apps I was so happily surprised with how accurate this one was and all the different information options there are available. Every single paid for app I tried was wrong but this free one managed to actually do its job and do it so well! I will always use this app going forward! Excellent job whoever created this app, it is so refreshing to have an advertised product actually do what it says it’s going to do without any lies, misrepresentations or manipulations in its advertising. Other app creators take notice, this is how you do it right and keep your customers very happy and dedicated to your product! Great Job!!

Davidwtd ,

Awesome App

I’m a total novice so I can’t follow all the Family/ Genus stuff. It’s over my head. But the app lends itself to basic use too by listing the common names. My favorite part though is when you search a plant, the options offer pics of the flower, leaves, bark, etc.. There’s even a Wikipedia tab so you can read about the plant which can help in identification. Because it’s user driven, there’s good and bad. The good: TONS of submitted photos. The bad: Not all the submitted pics will be of the advertised plant (just means someone made a poor identification and “contributed” it to the database). This can fool you into thinking it’s something it’s not. It’s also up to the user network to “validate” everyone’s observations. Sadly there’s no flora-genius overseeing the thousands of contributions to determine the accuracy. That’s just wishful thinking. You’re relying on someone plant-savvy to stumble across your contribution and choose to validate you. Overall a kickass app. And it’s free! I’m learning slowly, but learning a lot.

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