Plant Alert

Sentinel Garden is a citizen science app developed as part of the OneSTOP project to help monitor introduced, non-native and potentially invasive plants. Use the app to photograph and identify plants, record where you found them, and contribute observations that can help researchers understand how plants are spreading through gardens and other managed green spaces. Identify plants Take or upload up to three photographs and use integrated Pl@ntNet identification to help determine the species you have found. You can also enter the plant name yourself if you already know it. Record where plants are growing Add the observation location using the location stored in your photograph, your device GPS, or by selecting the location on a map. Tell us what you are seeing For plants found in gardens and allotments, Sentinel Garden asks additional questions about how the plant is behaving — for…