PlantNet Plant Identification

Pl@ntNet is an software that allows you to identify crops just by photographing them with your smartphone. Very useful when you do not have a botanist on hand! Pl@ntNet is also an excellent citizen science venture: all the crops you photograph are collected and analysed by scientists all over the world to higher perceive the evolution of plant biodiversity and to higher preserve it.

Pl@ntNet allows you to establish and higher perceive all types of vegetation living in nature: flowering plants, bushes, grasses, conifers, ferns, vines, wild salads or cacti. Pl@ntNet also can establish numerous cultivated plants (in parks and gardens) but this is not its primary function. We especially need Pl@ntNet’s customers to inventory the wild plants, these you could observe in nature after all but additionally those who grow on the sidewalks of our cities or in the course of your vegetable garden!

The more visual info you give to Pl@ntNet about the plant you're observing, the more accurate the identification will be. There are indeed many plants that look alike from afar and it's typically small particulars that distinguish two species of the identical genus. Flowers, fruits and leaves are the most attribute organs of a species and it is them that ought to be photographed first. But some other detail may be helpful, similar to thorns, buds or hair on the stem. A photograph of the whole plant (or the tree if it is one!) is also very useful info, but it is typically not adequate to allow a dependable identification.

At present Pl@ntNet makes it possible to acknowledge about 20,000 species. We are nonetheless a good distance from the 360,000 species living on earth, however Pl@ntNet is getting richer every day due to the contributions of essentially the most skilled customers amongst you. Don't be afraid to contribute yourself! Your statement might be reviewed by the community and will one day be part of the photograph gallery illustrating the species in the utility.

The new model of Pl@ntNet released in January 2019 consists of many improvements and new features:

- The capacity to filter recognized species by genus or household.

- The differentiated data revision that provides extra weight to customers who've demonstrated essentially the most abilities (in explicit the variety of species noticed, validated by the community).

- The re-identification of shared observations, whether or not yours or these of different customers of the applying.

- The multi-flora identification that allows you to search for the photographed plant in all the flora of the appliance and not only in the one you've chosen. Very useful when you're not sure what flora to search for.

- The number of your favourite floras to entry them more shortly.

- The navigation at different taxonomic levels in picture galleries.

- The mapping of your observations.

- Links to many factsheets.

The internet version of the appliance is also obtainable on the following handle: https://identify.plantnet.org/