New England Wildflowers

A very practical and informative source when in the field...literally and figuratively!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ More useful than any field guide book I’ve ever purchased. This may not be set up precisely the way a professional academic flora guide is set up, but it works just fine on your phone when you’re trying to figure out a plant ID. If you’re a professional botanist you probably don’t need one of these anyway. If you just want to be able to pull your phone out of your pocket and find out what that plant is then you’re in the right place. Then you can use the awesome built in glossary reference on the description tab to sound like a professional botanist, or at least understand what you read. If you know (or think you know) a plant’s genus, species, or common name you can type it in and even a part name will bring up match results to check against. Make sure you check out the info tab so you can learn how to create logs. This app is so intuitive that you can jump right into IDs without instructions, but there’s a bit more in there and it doesn’t jump out at you. —— Developer: I love this app, but I’ve been using it for a while now without knowing I could log and send in data. I’d suggest a quick tutorial or a red notification dot, otherwise that might go unnoticed. The instructions are quite clear once you do notice them. Please add a way to sort the full database by family, that’s all that’s missing. (Unless you feel like moving on to insects🤞) Thank you! You’ve brought this autodidact a great deal of enjoyment!

I’m a volunteer docent at a local natural area. I take people on guided walks identifying native and naturalized plants. I recommend this app to everyone. Still I wish the plant descriptions were organized in such a way that it was easy to locate the descriptions of each aspect of the plant’s morphology (leaf, flower, leaf arrangement etc) as well as some interesting facts about the plant. Understanding that this is a cooperative effort this might be difficult to take on. I’m also noticing that some plants are missing.

Pretty terrible. You can’t sort or search by family. The species options appear in random order rather than grouping by genre and family. The photos only show floral parts and little to no other characteristics. There are no images of the plants in different stages of phenology. If date, time and location are available we should also be able to search and sort by what is in bloom currently. You have to needlessly sift through endless options rather being able to quickly narrow things down using families and phenology.

This app has been awesome. I can find the majority of what I find on my wanderings. I wasn't expecting much and have been blown away. Also just found the neat feature of saving the plants you find on a list. The only problem I have had so far is that I can't go to the plant from the list. I have to go back through and type it in. Small problem. Great app!

Very useful for identifying plants in my area! Well made and easy to use. Keep up the good work.

I'm a nature guide and I'm really impressed. I've only viewed this on my iPad so far, but it works great and the author uses a university website for the plant descriptions. Seems accurate and useful.