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[–] Classy 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you're using the book correctly, you couldn't say the same thing. Using a flora book to identify a plant requires learning about morphology and by having that alone you're already significantly closer to accurately identifying most things. If a dichotomous key tells you that the terminating leaflet is sessile vs. not sessile, and you're actually looking at that on the physical plant, your quality of observation is so much better than just photographing a plant and throwing it up on inaturalist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Not to mention, the book is probably going to list look-alike plants, and mention if they are toxic. AI is just going to go "It's this thing".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You can easily say the same thing. Use the image identification to get a name of the plant and google it to read about checking if the sessile is leafy or no.