A plant’s own page
Everything about one plant, in one place.
Last updated October 2026
Every plant in Indigene has a page: what it needs, what it feeds, how to grow more of it, and whether it would suit a spot of yours. You reach one by tapping a plant anywhere in the app, or by searching for it.
Finding a plant by name
Native plants lists every plant Indigene knows. Type a common name, in English or French, or the Latin one: “milkweed”, “oak”, “Asclepias”.
Search for a plant that isn’t native, like “butterfly bush”, and if Indigene has a page about it, it offers that instead: an invasive to remove, a look-alike, or a native swap.
At the top
- Native to: the regions it’s on. If it’s on several, its figures can be read for each.
- Labels: Essential, No watering, Deer-resistant, Thorny and so on. Tap one for what it means.
- Where it’s native: and whether Kew’s World Checklist, a worldwide record of where plants grow wild, agrees. Where it doesn’t, the page says so.
- A conservation note, on the few plants that are themselves at risk.
- Don’t confuse it with and Grow it instead of: its look-alikes and the ornamentals it can replace.
The figures
Tiles give its sun, moisture, winter hardiness, soil acidity (pH), full size, growth, caterpillar count and flowering months. A chart shows its height year by year. Beside them, a Confidence meter says how sure we are of these figures. Where the numbers come from.
Further down
- Growing needs: how to look after it.
- Ecosystem services: the wildlife it brings in, each with its own page, and its seven scores in plain words.
- See it growing near you: real photos of it in the wild near you, from iNaturalist.
- How to grow more: the ways to propagate it, each linked to a how-to.
- Want to plant it? Check your spot: see if it suits where you are.
- Look it up elsewhere: the same plant in Kew, GBIF, USDA PLANTS and other references.
When you have saved spots
If one of your saved spots would suit the plant, the page says so and links to it. Planted one? 🌱 I planted one adds it to that spot’s log. Saved spots explains the log.
Goes well with
Learn more
- Where any plant grows wild, worldwide — Plants of the World Online (Kew)
Recent changes
The latest updates to this part of the app, in the same plain notes that go out with each update.
Version 1.1
October 17, 2026- in the Pacific Northwest, a plant's page now says whether the region's own botanists agree it's native — the Burke Museum's and OregonFlora's checklists — and names the one that disagrees, as on meadow checkermallow.
- show one plant type alone. Hold Shift and click a type square, or long-press it on a phone. Do it again on that type to show everything except it.
- the Bloom tile on every plant page now shows the flower's colour as a small dot beside the word, two halves for a two-tone flower. The drawing of the plant growing uses the same colour.
- the "Near the vegetables" line is off every plant page. It said the same thing on all of them, so it lives once, as the Natives & crops card on the Plants index.
- Kew's check on a plant's native status shows a green tick or a caution mark, and a small clock tag with the date that opens what the check means. "Where it's native" is now "Habitat", which is what it describes.
- "How to grow more" gives each method room to breathe, and a plant's identity code has a copy button.
- what a tough plant puts up with (trampling, rubble, cracks, no watering) now has its own Resilience card beside Growing needs, instead of a line that ran off the edge of the plant's header. Wild thyme shows it.
- The wild leek page now says what the Myaamia Center says — šikaakwa, written "Chicago" by the French, names both the wild leek and the striped skunk.
- the Kantō Aristolochia page said 4 moths feed on it from field records; the field-only figure is 3, and the page now says both.
- the Soil pH tile now calls a range like 4.5–6.5 "acidic" instead of "around neutral", and 7.0–8.5 "alkaline". Eastern hemlock is one of the plants that now read right.
- karaka's page now says Māori planted it for its kernels, which are food only after long cooking and soaking, not for its fruit. Harakeke is the main plant of Māori weaving, not the only one.
Version 1.0
October 12, 2026- every plant page now says whether Kew's World Checklist agrees it's native where you are, and when we asked. Where Kew disagrees — eight plants so far — the page says that too.