Flora Incognita Reviews

But Flora Incognita is even more! The app is free of charge and without advertising, because it is part of a scientific research project that aims to improve nature conservation.

Its development was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation with funds from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety as well as the Thuringian Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation and the Foundation for Nature Conservation Thuringia.

In regular stories, you will learn about news from the project, get insights into the scientific work or will be made curious about what is happening in nature right now.

The collected observations are used to answer scientific research questions that deal, for example, with the spread of invasive species or the effects of climate change on biotopes.

Species identification with Flora Incognita is based on Deep Learning algorithms that have an accuracy of well over 90%.

In the Flora Incognita app you can easily view all your collected plant finds in a observation list.

The Flora Incognita app is developed by scientists from the Technical University of Ilmenau and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena.

It is important to take sharp and as close as possible pictures of plant parts such as flower, leaf, bark or fruit for a high identification accuracy.

You can use Flora Incognita anytime, as long as you want.

What's blooming? With the Flora Incognita app, this question is quickly answered.

Take a picture of a plant, find out what it's called and learn everything you want to know with the help of a fact sheet.

But maybe you will enjoy searching and identifying plants so much that it will become a new hobby.

This way you can see how your knowledge about wild plants is growing.

Maps show where you have found your plants.