Identifying plants - with these apps it works

To help you identify different plants, there are now a number of apps and websites. Most of them are free to use. We'll show you which apps are the best and exactly how identifying plants works here.

These apps are suitable for identifying plants

If you are often out and about in nature and are interested in the different plants that exist, a number of apps will help you identify them.

1. One app for identifying plants is PlanetNet. This is available for free for all smartphones running iOS and Android and includes a database of photos of more than 4,000 different plants. PlanetNet works quite simply by photographing part of the plant you want to identify and making a search query.
2. Also free, but only available for Android devices, is the app "Discover animals and plants". This allows you to find out via GPS function, which plants are located in your vicinity and also helps you through a list of criteria in the determination of unknown plants.
3. The Berlin Natural History Museum has developed the app "Naturblick". This is free to download and can be used to determine plants such as trees, herbs and wildflowers.

How to identify plants online

If you do not want to install an extra app on your smartphone to determine different plant species, you will find for this purpose on the Internet alternatively various websites and tools. While the plants on the page of "pflanzenbestimmung.info" are identified by means of pictures, the determination in the "Krautfinder" is done by entering the various plant characteristics. The use of both tools, just like the apps, is possible free of charge.