plant identification
What plant is this?
Upload a photo. You get species, common names, care advice and a toxicity warning — right in your browser. No app to install, no account to create, no images kept.
$ plantid --identify --lang en
Counting identifications …
Result
identify --output markdown
Analysing …
growing — two models in parallel
Pl@ntNet — species match
waiting for reply …
Qwen vision — overall assessment
waiting for reply …
A one-page sheet with your photo, the plant, care and toxicity — made to print.
Follow-up — keep asking about the same plant %n question(s)
The session is kept for three hours on the server and holds text only — never the image. 40 questions per hour.
How it works
01
Upload a photo
Shoot in daylight and fill the frame with a leaf or flower. No app to install — the tool runs in your browser on phone, tablet and desktop.
02
Two models are compared
Pl@ntNet matches the image against a scientific species register and Qwen vision judges shape, colour and characteristics. The results are shown side by side.
03
Keep asking
You get species, common names, family, care advice and a toxicity warning. Then you can keep asking about the same plant in a session — watering, repotting, disease signs.
Common questions
These are the questions people actually search for.
Is the plant identification free?
Yes. The service is free and requires no account, no subscription and no app. It runs in your browser and is funded as a hobby project under rostad.cc. Each visitor can do 10 identifications per hour.
Do I need to download an app?
No — that is the whole point. You open the page in your phone's browser and upload a photo directly. Nothing to install, nothing taking up space, nothing asking for your permissions.
Are my photos stored?
No. The image is sent to the models, analysed and forgotten. It is not stored on the server, not used for training and not logged. The server only counts requests to keep the service available.
How reliable is the answer?
Every automatic identification has a margin of error. That is why two independent models' confidence scores are shown side by side — Pl@ntNet against a scientific species register and Qwen vision as an overall assessment. If they disagree you see it immediately, and at low confidence you get a warning instead of a confident answer. More images, such as leaf, flower and bark, improve accuracy.
Can it identify weeds and houseplants?
Yes. Wild plants, garden plants, houseplants, weeds, conifers and ferns. Clean close-ups of a leaf or flower work best. An overview shot of the whole plant gives lower precision.
Is the plant toxic to my cat?
The toxicity assessment is shown as its own warning line in the answer, covering cats, dogs and children. If you are unsure about a plant you were given or found outdoors, treat it as toxic until you know. In Sweden, call the Poisons Information Centre on 010-456 6700; outside Sweden, contact your local poisons centre. In an emergency, call 112.
Can I ask more questions about the plant?
Yes. After each identification a session opens where you can keep asking about the same plant — watering, light, repotting, disease signs — without uploading the photo again. The session is kept for three hours and holds text only, never the image.