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.

The Daily Five

Five species are chosen for the UK calendar day. Everyone in the region sees the same set. That makes a score something you can mention on a walk, the way a crossword is shared. Selection is weighted toward plants with a high month score — explained on what’s flowering this month.

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 Daily Five?

Five photographs. 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.

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