# Plant ID Apps vs Your Brain 📱🧠

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Podcast: [The Holistic Herbalism Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-holistic-herbalism-podcast-446911)
Published: 2026-05-29T00:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Plant ID apps are helpful (when they’re accurate), but there is one drawback – they make it harder to learn plant ID for yourself. But there are ways to combat that so that you get good at plant ID – without having to memorize a ton of stuff. It’s summer! Now is the time to be out there practicing with your plants. Yes, there are lots of apps that will try to identify plants for you, but this is about skill development – because when you know, you know. Working through the process of observat...

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