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

PlantNet allows you to identify and better understand all types of plants that live in nature: flowering plants, trees, grasses, conifers, ferns, vines, wild salads or cacti. Pl@ntNet can also identify a large number of cultivated plants (in parks and gardens), but this is not its main purpose. We especially need Pl@ntNet users to take an inventory of wild plants, the ones you can observe in nature, of course, but also the ones that grow on the sidewalks of our cities or in the middle of your garden!

The more visual information you provide to Pl@ntNet about the plant you are looking at, the more accurate the identification will be. In fact, there are many plants that look alike from afar, and sometimes it is small details that distinguish two species of the same genus. The flowers, fruits and leaves are the most characteristic organs of a species and they are the ones that should be photographed in the first place. But any other detail can be useful, such as thorns on the shoots or hairs on the stem. A photograph of the entire plant (or of the tree if it is!) is also very useful information, but it is often not enough to allow reliable identification.

Currently, Pl@ntNet allows us to recognize about 20,000 species. We are still a long way from the 360,000 species that live on earth, but Pl@ntNet is enriched every day thanks to the contributions of the most experienced users among you. Don’t be afraid to contribute yourself! Your sighting will be reviewed by the community and you may one day join the photo gallery illustrating the species in the app.

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 review of differentiated data that gives more weight to users who have demonstrated more skills (in particular, the number of observed species validated by the community).
– The re-identification of shared observations, whether they are yours or those of other users of the application.
– The multiflora 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.
– Navigation to different taxonomic levels in image galleries.
– Mapping your observations.
– Links to many information sheets.

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

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