Back in 1958 when I was a kid, me and my mum collected and pressed wildflowers. This was an OK thing to do back then! In the course of about a year, "I" collected 215 wildflowers. They were selotaped into a scrapbook. I still have this scrapbook and one day I'll take some photos of it and add them to this web page.
Although I started looking at wildflowers again in 2007 for a little while, my interest really took off in April 2020 when I discovered the plantnet app.
To begin with, I would use the plantnet app on my mobile when I'm out walking. It can take a photo of a wildflower; identify it for me and register that I've seen it on the plantnet website.
The biggest problem with using the plantnet app whilst I'm out is that it tells me that I've seen Blowball, Bind Wood, Great Maple, Alderne, Fireweed, Cow Parsnip, etc and each time I take a photo of one of these, my brain gets reinforced with that common name. However, those in the UK will know these as Dandelion, Ivy, Sycamore, Elder, Rosebay Willowherb, Hogweed. My website uses those UK common names. And I try to get used to both. It's a strange Jekyll and Hyde world that I live in!
So when I see a wildflower that I'm about to take a photo of, I say to myself that that's Cheese Rennet (for example) and the app confirms that and I'm pleased with myself! However, in the UK it's Lady's Bedstraw.
I did this for over a year. It was a great way of learning the names of wildflowers. However, I've decided that the photos taken by my phone aren't good enough. So now I'm using a Canon EOS 7D Mark II camera to take the photos and using the plantnet website when I get home to identify each wildflower. That website records what wildflowers I've seen and I can later download my data from that website in order to produce these web pages.
Although it gets some of the identification wrong, I'm not too bothered about that as it's getting me to know the names of a lot of the wildflowers that I see. When I spot something new or something I want clarification about, I also use the Seek app and the Flora Incognita app as I read somewhere that they are better at identification. Even so, I'm keeping with plantnet because it stores data that I can download.
I'm using www.ukwildflowers.com to translate latin names into common names as the data I'm getting from plantnet doesn't have common names (probably because there are too many of them for the same wildflower). When the data I've derived from ukwildflowers doesn't have the latin name, I've added a common name that I think is appropriate.
This web page was created on Monday July 4th 2022 at 08:21:57.
Recent sightings of plants with the plants of the latest trip output first
Plants indexed by the trips I've made with each trip ordered by the common names of the flowers
Plants indexed by the trips I've made with each trip ordered by the time the photo was taken
Plants indexed by the locations where I've seen plants
Plants indexed by the common names of the plants
Plants indexed by the first sighting of a plant