The best apps to identify plants and flowers

apps identify plants

If we are not experts in botany or professional gardeners, it is very possible that we find it difficult to identify plants or distinguish between one plant species or another. But the apps to identify plants They help us overcome these limitations, which can be very interesting when it comes to taking care of our orchard or garden, or to get to know the flora that surrounds us on our getaways in the middle of nature.

This type of application is gaining a lot of popularity, especially for its versatility. We can use them to find out which are those flowers that look so pretty on the neighbor's balcony, or to clear up doubts about the care to give to our plants, depending on the genus to which they belong.

The truth is that these magnificent apps are not only useful for amateurs or beginners. They can also be very practical for gardening professionals and for nature lovers in general, since they have many interesting things to teach us and contain a lot of information. They work the same as apps to identify mushrooms, that is, thanks to the mobile camera.

One last note before we start with our selection: there are numerous applications that promise us to be able to identify plants, flowers and trees, but many of them work quite badly and offer erroneous results. That's why We must not be convinced by the first option we find. It is better to play it safe and choose one of the ones on our list, which are undoubtedly among the best apps for identifying plants and the most reliable:

TreeApp

treeapp

We open the list with treeapp, a very precise and totally reliable free application developed by the Royal Botanical Garden of the CSIC.

This application is an efficient consultation tool where information on hundreds of species of trees from the Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. All with very complete and detailed files that include the main characteristics of each tree, images and a distribution map.

One of the advantages of ArbolApp is that it can work offline, that is, it is ideal for going out into the open with it. But above all, it stands out for being a scientific level tool.

TreeApp
TreeApp
Price: Free
‎Treeapp
‎Treeapp
Developer: Mobile One2One
Price: Free

flora incognita

unknown flora

Application flora incognita, is as easy to use as any of the others on this list and offers a huge amount of information and advice. With an operation based on artificial intelligence algorithms, it boasts of offering a degree of precision of almost 100%. He is even able to identify a flower before it blooms. Awesome.

The best thing is that it is a free app without advertising, since it is part of a scientific research project that aims to improve nature conservation. Flora Incognita is also a great meeting point for plant lovers from all over the world, who can share images and information here, answer their questions, etc.

flora incognita
flora incognita
‎Flora Incognita
‎Flora Incognita
Developer: Patrick Maeder
Price: Free

Garden Answers

garden answers

In our list of the best apps to identify plants it could not be missing Garden Answers, the most downloaded gardening application in the Apple Store. With your help we can identify more than 20.000 species, quickly and with a very high degree of precision.

The way to use this app is very simple. All we have to do is take a photo of the plant or flower whose name we want to find out and, in a matter of seconds, we will access all the information that the application contains about it. In addition, with the search button you can obtain all kinds of information about each plant: tips for growing it, care, varieties, treatments against pests and diseases, etc. All a gardening handbook on our smartphone.

GardenAnswers Plant Identifier
GardenAnswers Plant Identifier
Developer: Garden Answers
Price: To be announced
‎Garden Answers Plant Id
‎Garden Answers Plant Id
Developer: Gardens Alive
Price: Free+

Nature ID

natureid

Nature ID is more than just an app to identify plants. It is also a comprehensive care guide for plants and flowers and an encyclopedia of the natural world. Its horizons go far beyond the limits of the plant kingdom and include fungi, rocks, and insects, among other things.

In any case, plant lovers will find an excellent ally here, a practical and reliable help to care for them, to know how much water and light they need, how much fertilizer they need, where and when we should sow the seeds, etc.

Plantum - Pflanzen bestimmen
Plantum - Pflanzen bestimmen
Developer: AIBY Inc.
Price: Free
‎Plantum: Pflanzen bestimmen
‎Plantum: Pflanzen bestimmen
Developer: AIBY
Price: Free+

plant snap

plantsnap

A gigantic huge database with more than 600.000 species of trees, plants and flowers is what we have at our fingertips when we download the app on our phone plant snap. This is, without a doubt, one of the benchmark applications in its segment, with more than 50 million users spread across all corners of the planet.

Its star function is the identification of plants through the camera of our mobile device, although it is not the only one. We must also highlight the "Explore" function, to discover and study the plant species of a certain region of the world.

In addition, with PlantSnap we will be able to create our own “plant library” with the images and cards of all the flowers, leaves, cacti, plants, etc. that we find in our garden or on our trips and excursions.

plant snap
plant snap
Developer: Plant Snap, Inc.
Price: Free
‎PlantSnap - identify plants
‎PlantSnap - identify plants

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