LaPlant is a digital herbarium and plant intelligence app designed to help people document, understand, and care for plants in a more organized way. It brings together plant identification, mapping, care planning, weather-aware guidance, garden exploration, and community features in one place. Users can add plants with photos, scientific details, location data, growth information, health notes, and care schedules so each plant becomes part of a living record instead of a scattered note or memory.

The app is for gardeners, students, researchers, plant collectors, hobby growers, landscape planners, and anyone who wants a clearer picture of the plants around them. It is especially useful for people who want to manage personal collections, study plant characteristics, monitor health over time, or build a more complete botanical archive. By combining practical care tools with plant knowledge, LaPlant helps users move from simply owning plants to understanding them better.

LaPlant is built by Stephen K Adjei, a PhD student at Claremont Graduate University working through CISAT, with a focus on creating modern digital tools that make plant knowledge more accessible, searchable, and useful in everyday life. The goal is to make botanical information easier to capture, easier to revisit, and more valuable for both learning and long-term care.