3 recommended apps for plant recognition

Today we would like to introduce you to three recommended smartphone apps for identifying plants, which will help anyone who often wonders which plants they have seen exactly.

Not only the higher temperatures are a good reason to spend a lot of time outdoors during the warm season. The flourishing nature also has plenty of attractions in store. If you would like to know which plant it is that enchants you so much, you can easily find out using the smartphone app. Three of the best Determine apps for planting we will introduce you below.

Determine plants with Pl@ntNet

The Pl@ntNet app identifies plants based on photos. This means you photograph a plant that you want to identify and the app then uses recognition software to determine which plant it is. If the identification is successful, you can send the result to the connected community and thus contribute to expanding the already very extensive database.

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PictureThis: Identify ornamental plants and get tips

Like Pl@ntNet, PictureThis allows you to identify plants using a smartphone camera, but unlike the latter, it also recognizes garden plants. In addition, PictureThis offers a diagnostic function that allows you to identify diseases in plants and gives you useful tips for plant care. However, the full version of PictureThis is chargeable.

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Identify wild plants with Flora Incognita

The Flora Incognita app is a joint project of the Technical University of Ilmenau and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and is particularly suitable for detecting native wild plants using a smartphone camera. As with Pl@ntNet, you can send in the pictures you have taken and thus contribute to expanding the app database. However, Flora Incognita is not suitable for identifying ornamental plants.

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Conclusion

Both Pl@ntNet and Flora Incognita are well suited for detecting wild plants, are free of charge, offer the user the opportunity to collaborate and lots of additional information on detected plants. Pl@ntNet has the larger database, but does not always recognize plants reliably. However, the aforementioned apps are not suitable for identifying ornamental plants. The fee-based app PictureThis, which also contains care tips and a diagnostic function for plant diseases, is ideal for this purpose.