Hi guys,

does anyone know any online identifier for flowers? If you know the name in latin it's easy to find additional info about that specific flower, but what if you want to find out a flower's name based on a photograph/description?

 

Also very helpful would be to know where and WHEN one can find a specific flower/plant. This way it's easier to plan a photo trip ... Maybe we can categorize the results geographical/country.

 

I'll start and share a few sites:

- http://www.realtimerendering.com/flowers/flowers.html

- http://www.flowerpictures.net/blooming/blooming_flowers.html (US region).

- http://www.muntesiflori.ro/lista-albume-note-flori/ (romanian site).

 

Radu

One way to identify flora or fauna (and flowers) is to search Google Images for both location and some descriptive characteristics. For example, I can search for "blue flower Massachusetts". Usually, when I scroll through resultant images I see pretty quickly the exact match. From that I can usually learn at least a common name for that flower and then I can either refine my Google search or go straight to Wikipedia for double checking and extra info.

This sounds great to me, because you can even use it right where you are:

 

http://smithsonianscience.org/2011/05/new-mobile-app-that-identifies-plants-by-leaf-shape-launched-by-smithsonian-and-columbia-and-maryland-universities/

 

here is a download for iphone and ipad: http://leafsnap.com/ did not find out for android yet..

 

it is an app, I never used it so far, but I knew a german website, which has the possibility to identify plants via images, I just could not figure out, from which country you are, so I looked for something in english and found this.

 

This is a wonderful plant identifier, I just found it: http://www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/identify

 

Anne Rose

If you know the flowers or fauna to be planted in specific garden, or forest or specific places, you could go for Google and search.