Plant inventory - What plants are living on your piece of paradise?

I watched this documentary on competitive birding. I thought it was well done. Funny and weird. Not exactly a permie activity but check it out here if any interest.

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

It sparked me thinking about making an inventory list of everything that grows on my 40 acres. There's going to be alot of things. I decided to start with just trees and shrubs. Within a few minutes I had over 50 different species of trees and woody shrubberies. That only counts willow once but there are many and I just don't know what they all are yet. Much work ahead.

There seem to be a whole bunch of plant identification and even diagnosis apps out there. I have not used any recently but I can't seem to find anything that would be similar to what the birders use to document and check off their sightings. It would be great to be able to add photos of the actual plants from the property that is being inventoried. I'd like to have the ability to go to any property and do a create a custom inventory of everything growing there. Maybe that could even be a valuable service to someone?

Anyone out there hear of such an app or have other ideas about how this could be organized? Any other features they would like see included?

I have lots of different varieties of oak trees, lots of cedar trees, lots of prickly pear cactus, lots of agarita and many other plants, maybe identified, maybe not ...

Sorry, I don't do apps ...

On our farm in 1993 we restored 160 acres back to tallgrass prairie. All of the grass seed used was local source (yellow tag, non-varietal) or an appropriate local cultivar if non-varietal was not available. All of the forb seed was collected from our burned native prairie remnants from the previous growing season. The species present now are so much greater than what we seeded in 1993, some came in from the native remnants interspersed in the 1993 seeding area. 3 orchid species are now present when none were planted originally, took about 13 years for the Small white lady's slipper to appear outside of the native remnants. Given a chance, nature will fill in the blanks, the seed dispersal mechanism for some of the prairie species is quite amazing. Also planted some Bur oak here in the early 1990's, native to this area but not this farm. My goal of having a bit of oak savannah is 35 years in the making !!

I have not yet watched your link so unsure what they are doing, but I use a nice app for exactly what you seek.

Pretty sure iNaturalist is what you are looking for! Its free.

I have even found a way by clicking around to get your findings on a list, with the pic you took and suggested identification without publicly mapping it and it's location. Doing it that way (phone location/coordinates off) does lose the public identification and regional feature tho, which can be helpful. Altho I've found the app generated suggestions are very accurate, and it will usually give you a dozen or more to compare to make your own decision.

Just listing perennials and biennials on my hugel berms:

Shrubs: Aurora haskap, Tundra haskap, various hybrid haskaps (can't remember names), Pixwell gooseberry, Invicta gooseberry, jostaberry (gooseberry+currant hybrid), red currant, black currant, random raspberry, triple crown blackberry, serviceberry

Cover: creeping rosemary (anti-grasshopper), mint (weed/pest control), yarrow

Misc: comfrey, burdock, stinging nettle, dwarf junipers, sand cherry

Cole, Thank you!

This sounds like just what I want. I will download it now.

INaturalist for Android on Google Play

Doug McEvers wrote:On our farm in 1993 we restored 160 acres back to tallgrass prairie. All of the grass seed used was local source (yellow tag, non-varietal) or an appropriate local cultivar if non-varietal was not available. All of the forb seed was collected from our burned native prairie remnants from the previous growing season. The species present now are so much greater than what we seeded in 1993, some came in from the native remnants interspersed in the 1993 seeding area. 3 orchid species are now present when none were planted originally, took about 13 years for the Small white lady's slipper to appear outside of the native remnants. Given a chance, nature will fill in the blanks, the seed dispersal mechanism for some of the prairie species is quite amazing. Also planted some Bur oak here in the early 1990's, native to this area but not this farm. My goal of having a bit of oak savannah is 35 years in the making !!

Doug I love it!

I've had the same goal and seen some of the same results you mention even though I've been at it about half that long. I'm really just getting started on the native grasses. I didn't realize how abused the land had been until it started to recover.

Ok here's my list so far. This is the best I could get the note app I was using to spit out. Next will be to get this into INaturalist with photos and latin names and then keep going.

[ ] Alder speckled
[ ] Apple-crab
[ ] Apples various
[ ] Apricot adirondack gold
[ ] Apricot manchurian
 *Aronia
[ ] Ash black
[ ] Ash green
[ ] Ash white
[ ] Aspen quaking
[ ] Basswood
[ ] Birch river
[ ] Birch white
[ ] Birch yellow
[ ] Cedar red
[ ] Cedar white
[ ] Cherry black
[ ] Cherry carmine jewel
[ ] Cherry chokecherry
[ ] Dogwood gray
[ ] Dogwood red osier
[ ] Fir balsam
[ ] Hawthorns ?
[ ] Hazel american
[ ] Hazel beaked
[ ] Ironwood hop hornbeam
[ ] Ironwood hornbeam
[ ] Maple red
[ ] Maple sugar
[ ] Mountain ash
[ ] Ninebark
[ ] Oak red
[ ] Oak red northern pin
[ ] Oak white
[ ] Oak white burr
[ ] Oak white swamp
[ ] Ohio buckeye
[ ] Pear various
[ ] Pine norway?
[ ] Pine red
[ ] Pine scots
[ ] Pine white
[ ] Plum wild American
[ ] Poplars ?
 *Saskatoons wild and cultivated
[ ] Spruce black
[ ] Spruce white
[ ] Tamarack
[ ] Viburnum arrowwood
[ ] Viburnum cranberry
[ ] Viburnum nannyberry
[ ] Willows many kinds?
[ ] Winterberry
[ ] Witchhazel