A quiet edition for the considered keeper.

PlantMom began as a question our founders were asking themselves: what would a plant publication look like if it were written for the hands that actually tend the leaves — careful, curious, uninterested in hype?

We catalog ninety-thousand species in a single library, curated and described by an editorial team rather than crowd-sourced. We write a monthly journal of essays and field notes. We publish seasonal collections. We do not gamify, badge, or push notifications.

We believe plant keeping is a slow practice — that the best thing a tool can do is stay out of the way.

"The plant is patient. The best software ought to be patient with the keeper." THE EDITORS · SPRING 2026

The masthead

PlantMom is written and edited by a small independent team. "The Plant Edition" is our editorial publication — a monthly letter of essays, field notes, and seasonal reading. Contributing editors and photographers are credited individually on each piece. If you would like to write for us, pitch at hello@plantmom.app.

Sources & credits

• Species descriptions: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cross-referenced against GBIF.
• Species photographs: the iNaturalist community (primarily CC BY-NC). Each photograph credits its author below the image.
• Additional photography: Unsplash.
• Nothing on this site is AI-generated writing. AI helps us organize data, not draft essays.

House rules

• No sponsored content in editorial.
• No AI-generated writing (though AI helps us organize data).
• Every featured plant is cross-checked against GBIF.
• Photographs are commissioned or Creative Commons with credit.
• The reader is the expert.