Plant seedlings (pictorial reference)

I always plant, or find things that I don't know what it is--usually as seedlings. And half the time there is NOTHING online showing what a seedling looks like so I keep looking or just wait until it grows up (IF it grows up) to find out.

So here I am. I am going to post pictures of seedlings, identified if I know them. Some I don't know yet because duh, I didn't label everything this spring. I know what I planted, but I don't know what it is supposed to look like. I'll post those as I have more identifiable pictures. Some I may have mis-identified, and if I find out that is the case I'll correct it.

Please add your own labeled seedling pictures so we can have a running reference.

Basil
Arugula
Tomatoes
Beans
Corn
Lettuce mix
Onion
Winter Squash 1&2

All perennial edibles (early spring). I'll add more as I find it, still early here.
Except for the Good king Henry, listed plants need protection from the herbivores. They'll eat those plants to the ground and or strip all the leaves, no second-year flowering cause of it.

1. Dystaenia takesimana (seombadi) https://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/201372/
2. Tall hairy agrimony (Agrimonia gryposepala)
3. Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)Aralia cordata (udo)
4. Aralia Cordata (Udo)
5. Peucedanum japonicum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peucedanum_japonicum
6. Good-King-Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus)

Great idea!

Nothing to contribute- except for the fact I would love if someone shared a ginger seedling. I have other things sprouting in my ginger pot and I’m fairly certain it’s not ginger but I don’t know really!

I also have a predicament that sweet potato and morning glory can both be found in my one garden bed and I’m never certain if it’s friend or foe until much later :(

Ginger seedling, or a start from a root? The starts look like a spike, then a wide leaf all wrapped around itself.

More from previous years (this computer has no mouse so adding pictures is a pain, but this is where most of my pictures are)

More from the mouseless computer. Pear and peach/nectarine. These were nectarines, but peach seedlings look the same.

Hi all, my friend Abby told me about an app called leafsnap. It is free and fairly accurate. I downloaded it and tried it out on about 30 that I knew what they were and it was spot on. I tried it on a tree in my front yard and from the leaves it said live oak but from the bark it said birch. Now I know it's not a birch, I have never seen one at this elevation. But I think the live oak is probably accurate. I am going to take a sprig of it to the extention office to be sure before I cut it down to make way for something productive

So when you bring the app up it asks if you want to take a picture or from gallery. If you are somewhere that you don't have service just take pictures and check them when you have service. Take your picture, it asks if it's OK, then it asks if it is a flower, leaf, bark. It analysis the picture and tells you what it is and gives a little information on it and you can click for more info. It is pretty cool. Check it out and enjoy

If you don't have service and you are just taking pictures to check later do that with your camera to save in gallery. The app doesn't save any thing

Lauren Ritz wrote:Ginger seedling, or a start from a root? The starts look like a spike, then a wide leaf all wrapped around itself.

I guess I meant a start from the root. Thank you :)

Seems like my root may have failed.

Saralee Couchoud wrote:Hi all, my friend Abby told me about an app called leafsnap. It is free and fairly accurate. I downloaded it and tried it out on about 30 that I knew what they were and it was spot on. I tried it on a tree in my front yard and from the leaves it said live oak but from the bark it said birch. Now I know it's not a birch, I have never seen one at this elevation. But I think the live oak is probably accurate. I am going to take a sprig of it to the extention office to be sure before I cut it down to make way for something productive

So when you bring the app up it asks if you want to take a picture or from gallery. If you are somewhere that you don't have service just take pictures and check them when you have service. Take your picture, it asks if it's OK, then it asks if it is a flower, leaf, bark. It analysis the picture and tells you what it is and gives a little information on it and you can click for more info. It is pretty cool. Check it out and enjoy

It works pretty well? I had downloaded ‘PlantSnap” as opposed to ‘leafsnap’ and have not been happy with it. Granted a lot of the things I ask for are probably very local...

Good idea! At the moment it's evening here, not the right time to make photos. I'll show some I made a few days ago, and I'll make more tomorrow morning (if I won't forget ...)


Polyculture: a mixture of different leafy greens to eat as a salad. The reddish ones are mustard leaves.


Seen through plastic. Row closest by: watermelon, aubergine (egg plant), cucumber and then a tray of seeds that did not yet come out. In the other rows there are different peppers, pumpkins and leeks (to make better photos of tomorrow)

Rebecca Blake wrote:

Lauren Ritz wrote:Ginger seedling, or a start from a root? The starts look like a spike, then a wide leaf all wrapped around itself.

I guess I meant a start from the root. Thank you :)

Seems like my root may have failed.

Not necessarily. They can take some time to break dormancy. If the root is still there and hard, you're good. Just be patient.

Some more of my seedlings.

Bell peppers (but could be any kind of peppers)

Bean (brown bean), just starting today!

Red (purple) cabbage

Leeks

Watermelons

Tomatoes

More beans (may be different coloured beans)

Snow peas (but other peas look the same)

Cucumbers

Butternut squash

Google Lens is also decent at plant ID. I'm going to try LeafSnap now.

I have been working on identifying hundreds of plants and am getting much better at it, with training from applications and advice from local people. I thought I had volunteer sweet potatoes briefly, until my neighbor told me it was bindweed....

Ok! Now I'm excited. I thought they died but one of my yacon tubers is coming up! You can see the hollow tube sticking out but finally there are some leaves. A guy was giving them away since they seem to multiply quickly. I've tried sugar cane and it really does taste just like it!

Lew Johnson wrote:Google Lens is also decent at plant ID. I'm going to try LeafSnap now.

I have been working on identifying hundreds of plants and am getting much better at it, with training from applications and advice from local people. I thought I had volunteer sweet potatoes briefly, until my neighbor told me it was bindweed....

I have leafsnap and it's great