App Profile: Virginia Wildflowers

mikeinkg

Rating: 3/5

Lovely app. Good interface. Would benefit from ability to include text search field for searching. For example “thorns” and any of the advanced botanical anatomy taxonomy terms used by pros. Also would benefit from multi-item selections. White+Pink. Forest+ Disturbed. One Inch + Half Inch. My first three attempts in Virginia have failed. Great app however, in basic design.

reneefoskett

Rating: 5/5

I LOVE this app! Super user-friendly and easy to use. It gives you all the information on wildflowers- where they’re geographically found, shape, size, features, etc. You can filter the flowers by color, petal numbers, size, etc. BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! You can also identify trees, shrubs, mosses, fungi, etc! It says “wildflowers” in the name of the app, but it has ALL flora in the database! We were able to identify lots of flowers in Shenandoah NP using this app, as well as a few trees and shrubs. We have this app downloaded for multiple other states too. It’s wonderful! Can’t say enough about this app!

J197625

Rating: 5/5

These apps are a great resource to get reliable photos and geographic data on plants, invaluable in the field in areas out of service.