PlantNet App

 I want to give out a shoutout to an app I've been using quite a bit lately called "PlantNet." I use it on our hikes to identify the plants, especially the wildflowers, that we come across. In the past, I have often wanted to be able to identify those beautiful wildflowers but haven't known how to do it until this year. The way the app works is you take a picture in the app of the plant you want to identify, you specify how you want it to be identified (by foliage, flower, etc.), and then it gives you some options with varying levels of accuracy, trying to match the plant with your location. I've noticed it's not as accurate without the flowers.

Yesterday we took a hike up Dry Canyon heading toward Little Baldy and we saw quite a few wildflowers that PlantNet identified. Here are a few.

European wand loosestrife:

Desert princesplume:

Firecracker penstemon:

Silky lupine:

Three-cornered Leek:

Sulphur-flower buckwheat:

Tapertip hawksbeard:

Woodland forget-me-not:

Littlecup beardtongue penstemon:

Alfalfa:

We didn't make it to the top of Little Baldy but next week we will!