In the latest Backyard Ecology podcast episode, host Shannon Trimboli talks with Herbarium director Alan Weakley about learning to identify plants — and how our new FloraQuest app can help!
The episode delves into Alan’s background in botany, ways people often go about plant identification, and why our team was inspired to create a new kind of plant identification app.
Our Flora of the Southeastern U.S. team has intentionally created a suite of tools in different formats — books, PDFs, a web app, and now a mobile app — to reach as many audiences as possible.
Weakley explains, “We want plant identification to be easy. We want it to be sophisticated. We want the best scientific information out there…We want to provide tools to put that in the hands of anybody and everybody.”
Listen here or on your podcast app of choice! The full transcript is also available online.