Is there an app to identify flora and fauna

Google Lens is Google's technology for "searching what you see", including plants and animal. Since it relies on Google's service, doesn't work offline.

Identify plants and animals

Find out what plant is in your friend's apartment, or what kind of dog you saw in the park.

It's available on:

• Google Lens standalone app (Android 6.0+)
• Google Assistant (Android 5.0+): "Look for the Lens icon in your Assistant."
• Google Photos (Android, iOS 10+): "Look for the Lens icon on your photos."

Based on my experience in identifying my dog, photos of insects, and flowers, it might not always be too accurate, though the suggested results with their visual representation sometimes helped.

^{Disclaimer: not affiliated with Google, just a happy user of it.}

posted almost 6 years ago

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Andrew T.‭

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Pl@ntNet is a citizen science project based in France. It's a great way to identify plants. To you use it you take one or more picture of a plant and then Pl@ntNet will upload them to a server and the server will give you a list of its best guesses, along with confidence measures.

Pl@ntNet does cannot identify plants offline, nor can it identify animals.

posted over 5 years ago

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lsusr‭

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Not sure where you are, but Alan Weakley et al. have developed a downloadable flora app available through the Apple AppStore called FloraQuest, which covers most of the Eastern US at this point.

^{Screenshot from floraquest.com}

From ResearchGate:

FloraQuest connects you with everything you need to know about naturally occurring plants in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic US: - Interactive dichotomous keys use your location to streamline the process of identifying plants - Illustrated glossary terms decipher botanical terms - Full descriptions of species, varieties, subspecies, genera, and plant families, including references, identification notes, images, and distributions - Powerful and quick search to find species (first two letters of genus + first two letters of species, e.g., ACRU finds Acer rubrum). - Record plants you find, with photos, dates, and location. Browse plants others have found and made public. - Show plants by common name or scientific (latin) name. FloraQuest is a product of the University of North Carolina Herbarium (http://herbarium.unc.edu) and was funded by Innovate Carolina

posted over 5 years ago

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theforestecologist‭

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I love Seek, by iNaturalist:

https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app

Besides Flora: Fauna and Fungi are part of the detection possibilities. The answers are very detailed. Although there is room for improvement, the gamified approach is lots of fun while maintaining the scientific correctness.

Furthermore, the iNaturalist community is a great place to discover other's observations worldwide.

Another thing I like is, that you do not need to register, if you want to use the app.

Seek is funded by the California Academy of Sciences, National Geographic and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The app is available completely for free for all iOS and Android users.

See also: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations

posted over 5 years ago

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Andreas Schwab‭

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Seek by iNaturalist is the best offline plant and animal identification app for hiking. It stores reference data offline, making it ideal for use in areas without internet access.

posted about 1 year ago

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artLover1978‭

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