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Story summary
- University of Michigan researchers released the Michigan Flora app, an offline field-manual for plant identification.
- The app guides users through dichotomous-key questions and underlines technical terms that display definition bubbles when tapped.
- Users can also search by plant name to view photos, descriptive paragraphs, and a map of Michigan specimen locations.
- Designed to operate without cell service, the app has been downloaded thousands of times on Apple and Android platforms.
