Expert plant and flower identification. Upload a pic and we'll tell you the name
Your personal plant identification expert. Snap a pic of a unknown plant, flower, bush or shrub, enter a few details about it and hit submit. Our community of plant experts will work on an ID and let you know when we have an answer.
You can also help others identify their plants, no experience needed.
The app is the world’s first dedicated to crowd-sourced plant identification. It brings a virtual community of plant and flower experts to any android mobile device. The app is NOT a field guide and requires no advance knowledge of plants.
App users upload images of unknown flowers and plants they encounter, then real people work to identify the photos. After enough ID votes are entered, the photo poster is emailed or tweeted with the identification.
"Plant and flower ID is one of those tasks that humans are MUCH better at than computers." says John Ellis, the service's founder. "For example the automated LeafSnap app was developed by some of the world's best image processing experts BUT -- the app is limited to trees --- only trees in the northeast United States-- requires the user to tape a leaf flat to a paper-- and even with these restrictions has a high failure rate."
"While image processing excels at applications having a limited universe of possible matches (like the OCR used to turn scanned documents into text) it fails when there are millions of possible matches. Plant life is so diverse it just isn't a good fit for image processing. " Added Ellis “Our new app lets the user snap a pic of any plant flower or tree they encounter without restriction, and upload it to our expert community for identification.”
Mister Smarty Plants™ has been recognized by gardening writers at The Denver Post, Ohio.com and The Roanoke Times. Since launching, Mister Smarty Plants™ has helped ID over 1,000 plants, trees, bushes and flowers from Senegal to Pakistan, and the Caribbean to the United Kingdom. See some of the ID'd flowers here http://www.mistersmartyplants.com/NamedPlants.aspx
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