Flora Incognita – free AI-supported plant identification university project

I&#x27;ve only used PlantNet in the past. Worked well for me the few times I&#x27;ve used it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plantnet.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plantnet.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a>

This appears to be a German effort.<p>Compare the <i>California Academy of Science</i> effort: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inaturalist.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;network" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inaturalist.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;network</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inaturalist.org&#x2F;pages&#x2F;terms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inaturalist.org&#x2F;pages&#x2F;terms</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gbif.org&#x2F;dataset&#x2F;50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425ef4a7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gbif.org&#x2F;dataset&#x2F;50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inaturalist.org&#x2F;observations&#x2F;export" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inaturalist.org&#x2F;observations&#x2F;export</a>

I tried it out around the yard and it correctly identified a variety of native flowering plants (in and past their prime), a couple trees (one native to the region, one about 400 miles from its native range), and a few ferns. The only one I&#x27;m pretty certain it got wrong was misidentifying a ghost fern as a Japanese painted fern (I have both, they are rather easily distinguished). When I tried to suggest that the misidentified fern was a ghost fern, it was unknown to the app so I couldn&#x27;t suggest it.

This is a really excellent app, I use it all the time in my garden. I planted native plants, and as they sprout every year it&#x27;s very hard to tell them apart from weeds at first. But Flora Incognito does a great job of identifying most plants correctly even as they&#x27;re just sprouting for the season.

AFAICT, it&#x27;s neither open source software, nor open data.

How does this compare to Seek?

I&#x27;ve had pretty good results with Google Lens in the past, but occasional misses as well. I&#x27;ll have to check if this fills the gaps.

Recently discovered this functionality is built into iOS. Take a picture of a plant, view it, at the bottom see the &quot;i&quot; in a circle. Click on it, then a banner under the image will say something like &quot;id plant&quot;. Works pretty well, not perfect but was surprised that this is a built in feature.

Really excited to try this out. I have installed Picture This in the past but they push heavily for a subscription which makes no sense for me when I only identify a few plants per year. Their business model is awful given that I suspect most people don’t have a regular need to identify plants.

Great app, but I hate their use of high precision GPS. Is it really that important to know the location of a plant down to meters??<p>If plant location is good to have, why not simply ask the user what area they are in (e.g. Berlin)??

What about fungi? :(