How Rosette teaches wildflower identification
A round is one large photograph and four names. You choose. The picture stays big enough to see teeth, hairs and habit — the characters a flora actually uses.
Look at the photograph
Rosette is not a camera identification app. The photograph is the question. That matches how Kew describes learning plants: look first, then name.
Play, then the extras
The main game is Play: ten photographs drawn from the UK plant list. You guess, you learn a fact, and correct names join your life list. The Daily Five is a shared set of five plants for everyone in the region that day. In Bloom prefers species with a high month score — explained on what’s flowering this month. Field notes that lead into a round live in the journal.
Lookalikes from the family tree
Wrong answers are not random wildflowers. They are drawn from taxonomy: different order when you are starting, same family or genus when you are sure. That is the difference between “is this a fern or a rose” and “which ragwort is it”.
Credit is part of the page
Images come from the iNaturalist Open Dataset. Non-commercial licences are excluded. After every answer the photographer’s name and licence sit on the reveal, and the full list is on the attributions page.
Questions
How long is a round?
Ten photographs when you play, five if you take the Daily Five. Each has four names. There is no timer.
Are the wrong answers random?
No. Distractors come from taxonomy — distant relatives when you are starting, the same family or genus when you are sure.
Who took the photographs?
iNaturalist contributors. Only CC0, CC-BY and CC-BY-SA images are used, and the photographer is named after every answer.