Submitted by ratratratrat in AskRaddle
Majrelende wrote
Reply to comment by rattledlove1139 in how many edible plants are near you? by ratratratrat
People usually end up identifying intuitively, but that of course is not where we begin.
There are a few methods of doing it when we are not sure:
- Using a field guide (flip through and look for the right categories, then match the images and descriptions)
- Using a dichotomous key (a set of two choices, which lead to more sets of two choices, and on and on until an identification is reached)
- Asking a more knowledgable person or using some sort of identification app (such as Seek, which seems good with privacy These can be either useful, or very wrong (like calling a seed a snail) depending on how well they know the plant.)
It can also be helpful to use some or all of them to better know the identification. Then, hopefully with practice you might memorize the characteristics, and then move on to identifying them without thinking.
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