Look up any plant in the world
More than 446,842 accepted species, by common or scientific name, in English or Dutch. Each has its own page: family, common names, where it grows and a photograph.
Open data on soil and plants
The ground, and everything that grows in it.
EcoSphere reads open science for anyone who is curious: what the soil under a place holds, the more than four hundred thousand plant species botanists recognise, and the sixteen plants of a medieval physic garden. Free, without an account, and every figure with its source.
Choose where to start
Measure the soil under a place
Type a town, an address or a postcode and descend through the ground beneath it: the carbon in the topsoil, the stock in the top thirty centimetres, and the fungi recorded nearby.
Walk the medieval physic garden
Sixteen beds from the Plan of St Gall, drawn around 820: what the monks wrote about each plant, and what is known now about the risk.