Free plant identifier
Take a photo of your plant and get the right one 89% of the time first try on common plants, with location on. Everything runs on your phone, no cloud upload, no tracking, completely free.
1Add a photo of one part of the plant
Add more photos of the same plant for a surer answer. Make sure they're all the same plant!
2See the closest matches
- Fill the frame with one plant, in focus.
- Your location helps it pick plants that actually grow where you are.
- Open any match to compare your photo with real sightings.
3Confirm it against real sightings
Open a match to put your photo beside real sightings of that plant.
How do I identify a plant from a photo?
Free Plant Identifier is a free plant identifier for gardeners, walkers and the curious that names 60,902 plants from a photo, right in your browser.
- Photograph one part of the plantA leaf, flower, fruit or piece of bark, filling most of the frame and in focus. Flowers and fruit usually give the clearest answer.
- Let it compareThe identifier checks your photo against 60,902 plants. If it knows where the photo was taken, it favours plants that grow there.
- Check the matchesOpen a match to put your photo beside real sightings of that plant.
Why it's free
Most plant identification apps send each photo to a server, and every photo a server handles costs money. That is why they cap free scans or ask for a subscription.
Free Plant Identifier sends the model to you instead. Your browser downloads it once (35 MB) and every identification after that happens on your phone or computer. With no cost per photo there is no limit to lift, no account to create and nothing to pay. The model stays in your browser's cache, so the next visit starts straight away.
How accurate it is on common plants
- Photo only
- 77.5%
- With location
- 89%
- Photo only
- 91.9%
- With location
- 96.9%
Tested on 3,880,456 real photos it never saw while being built. Common plants, those with 1,000 or more photos on record, make up 92% of the test photos. See how we measured this
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. Every identification runs on your own phone or computer, so there is no cost per photo to recover. There is no limit on photos and no account to create.
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. Your photo is read and identified inside your browser. If it has GPS data, the identifier uses it on your device to favour plants that grow there. Your exact location stays on your device.
Which plants does it know?
60,902 plants from around the world: wildflowers, trees, garden plants and weeds.
Does it work where I live?
Yes. It knows plants from every continent, and when it knows where your photo was taken it favours the plants that grow there.
Do I need to install an app?
No. It runs in the web browser on phones, tablets and computers. Browsers with WebGPU, such as Chrome, Edge and Safari, run it on the graphics chip; other browsers run the same model on the processor, a little more slowly.
Where do the example photos come from?
From iNaturalist, where people record sightings of plants and animals. Each photo appears under the licence its photographer chose, with their name beside it.