First and foremost, LiveStacks.co is a plant research tool with over 6,000 of the most common and useful cultivated plants. The Plants page can be used to search, sort and filter plants by a variety of different characteristics.

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Not finding the plant you are looking for? We don't want that to hinder your experience. Check out how to add missing Plants to be used in your Stacks and on your Map.

Plant cards display basic plant information such as:

  • Identification: Basic ways to identify the plant such as scientific and common names as well as the family the plant belongs to.
  • Ratings: Numeric rating from 0-5, with 5 being the highest, based on how useful the plant is for a specific purpose such as edibility or medicinal uses.
  • Weed Risk: Quickly identifies plants that could be a potential weed risk.
  • Hardiness: The hardiness range in which the plant can best survive.
  • Use Counts: The number of documented uses for each use case category i.e. edible uses, medicinal uses, food forest uses etc.
A single plant result card for Okra: the plant photo with a favorite star in the top-left, its common name, Latin name (Abelmoschus esculentus) and family, a hardiness zone, edibility/usability/medicinal rating bars, use-count chips, and an 'Add to Stack' button.
Plants - Card

Detailed plant information can be viewed in the Plant details drawer by clicking the plant name.

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