FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia 4+
University of North Carolina
High Country Apps, LLC
Designed for iPad
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- $19.99
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Description
Presented by University of North Carolina Herbarium's Flora of the Southeastern US team.
FloraQuest: Carolinas & Georgia is your field guide to over 5,800 wildflowers, trees & more!
- Wildflower ID App (NC, SC, GA): Identify plants with ease using keys, photos, & descriptions.
- Offline Plant Guide: No internet needed! ID plants on the go throughout the Carolinas & Georgia.
- Botanical Explorer: Discover new species & find top botanical sites in these 3 states.
- Plant Dictionary: Built-in definitions for all of those botanical terms.
University of North Carolina's Southeastern Flora Team is pleased to present FloraQuest™: Carolinas & Georgia, a new plant identification and discovery app covering more than 5,800 wildflowers, trees, shrubs, grasses, and other vascular plants occurring in southeast part of our Flora area (North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia).
With easy-to-use graphic keys, advanced dichotomous keys, habitat descriptions, range maps, and 20,000 diagnostic photographs, FloraQuest: Carolinas & Georgia is the perfect companion for your botanical explorations.
You can use FloraQuest to make plant identifications in the field or learn about plants anywhere in the region. The app allows you to customize your search by state and physiographic province so you only see relevant results. FloraQuest: Carolinas & Georgia doesn't need an internet connection to run, so you can take it with you wherever you go. The app's "Great Places to Botanize" section will guide you to visit the best sites for botanical exploration throughout the 3-state region. Do you struggle to remember complicated botanical terms? We've got you covered: click on a word you don’t know, and the definition will pop up in the app without you having to leave the page!
Stay tuned following the release of the FloraQuest: Carolina & Georgia app, as we will be working diligently to provide similar versions for the remaining regions across the Flora of the Southeastern States, until all 25 states are covered!
What’s New
Version 3.03
Fixed a problem with filtering by subregion.
Updated to the latest 2025 flora by the the University of North Carolina's Southeastern Flora Team.
Updated for iOS 18.3+.
New features include:
- illustrated glossary terms.
- image-enhanced dichotomous keys.
- dark mode support.
- plant sharing capabilities.
- improved graphic keys.
- enhanced search functionality.
- accessibility support for iOS VoiceOver.
Ratings and Reviews
What a joyful discovery! Worth every penny.
Best app purchase I’ve made in a long time:
Useful, trustworthy information with full citations and reputable sourcing (without being overwhelming to a newbie like me)
Straightforward interface that informs, not distracts
Full capability and access with or without internet connection (!!)
No ads, no data mining, and NO SUBSCRIPTION (!!!)
This has already been useful as we transition our yard to native plants. Seeing a new native plant for sale? Before, I had to spend 5-10 minutes of screen time Googling and comparing info from various websites to verify a plant’s native bona fides, figure out its ideal growing conditions, and picture its mature form. All that information is right here, immediately, powered by scholarly sources rather than crowdsourcing and/or ad revenue. 30 seconds to a confident decision: less screen time, less distraction, less decision fatigue.
I can go on hikes and make new discoveries without connecting to the internet and navigating through ads, distracting rabbit holes, and dubious information.
And in an environment where every little thing is a subscription, I pay just once for all this utility! Big fan.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your kind words and positive feedback!
Handy App - great for ID
This app is by far the best plant identification tool I’ve come across. Intuitive, easy to use, excellent keys and information etc. it’s like Merlin, but for flowers!
I will sing it’s praises to anyone who will listen. It might seem a little pricey, but it’s a onetime investment that will continue to serve you, and personally I want to support the creators so they can continue to make such excellent resources!
Amazing implementation of the FSUS
Carrying around the Radford manual is great. But you always have your phone!
Up to date taxonomy, really easy to search cor taxa, PHOTOS, explanation of random botanical terms in the keys, and filtering by region. It makes this app a great tool to learn plants, key plants, remember plants, teach plants, and so on and so forth!
Thanks to Scott Ward and all of the collaborators for putting the many hours in. And to Dr. Weakley for FSUS in general!
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- High Country Apps, LLC
- Size
- 861.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.1 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.1 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.1 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © High Country Apps LLC
- Price
- $19.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.