Harmful
Assessed and found toxic to this animal. We name the agent and the symptoms, and tell you to call a vet rather than wait it out.
“Toxic to cats and dogs — insoluble calcium oxalates. Oral irritation, vomiting, difficulty swallowing.”
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Your plants have an expert now.
Snap a photo to identify it. Ask what’s wrong. Get watering that moves with your weather — grounded in a verified catalogue of 381,479 species, not a chatbot’s guesswork.
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Herb
Reading your garden
Is Vinny safe for my parrot?
Vinny (Monstera deliciosa) is listed as harmful to cats and dogs — insoluble calcium oxalates. Birds haven’t been assessed, so I genuinely don’t know for your parrot. Keep it out of reach and ask an avian vet.
Check another petSee Monstera profile
Scroll — the vine grows with you
381,479species in the catalogue
5,071with verified care profiles
27,681verified pet-safety records
0care numbers we invented
Generic advice is why your plant died
“Water once a week” assumes a plant, a pot, a window and a climate that aren’t yours. Ask a general-purpose AI and it will happily invent a precise-sounding number it has no basis for.
A typical AI answer
“Your pothos thrives in 18–30°C with 60% humidity. Water every 7 days.”
Confident, specific, and partly fabricated — those numbers weren’t looked up anywhere. You can’t tell which half to trust, which makes all of it useless.
No sourceNo idea of your plantSounds certain anyway
What Herb says
“I don’t have a verified temperature range on file for this one. Normal room temperature suits it; keep it off cold draughts. Its card says moderate watering — check the top inch of soil rather than the calendar.”
Every fact traced to our catalogue. Where the data stops, the sentence stops — and you always know which is which.
Sourced from the catalogueKnows your plantAdmits the gap
One answer, taken apart
Every sentence Herb writes can be traced to something we actually hold. Here’s a real reply with the receipts shown.
“Vinny’s due for water today — it’s 31°C and dry, so he’ll drink faster than usual. He’s harmful to cats and dogs if chewed, and birds haven’t been assessed — so I can’t tell you about your parrot.”
It knows your plant
Not “a monstera” — Vinny, on your balcony, on the schedule you actually keep.
It quotes the catalogue
Toxicity is read verbatim from our pet-safety records. No model ever writes that sentence.
It stops where the data stops
Birds were never assessed, so Herb says so instead of reasoning his way to a guess.
From “what is this?” to “it’s getting better”
Identification is where most apps stop. It’s where the useful part starts.
Monstera deliciosa
Snap it
A photo names the plant against the real catalogue — and if we can't place it confidently, we say so rather than guessing.
Underwatered · watch
Ask what's wrong
A leaf photo returns the likely issue, how serious it is, and what to do — read against that species' profile and this plant's own history.
Recovering
Watch it recover
Treatments, waterings and outcomes land on one timeline, so a pattern you'd never notice becomes obvious.
The same camera reads your soil (dryness, compaction, drainage) and your light (what a corner really gives a plant) — so the advice is about your room, not a generic one.
Care that runs itself
Watering that moves with the weather
Fixed weekly reminders are how plants get drowned. LeafRanger schedules from each species’ real needs, then shifts the whole plan when the forecast does.
- Water groups — plants with the same thirst are batched, so one trip does the lot.
- One reminder per group, not per plant. No notification spam.
- Miss a day and the schedule re-times itself instead of guilting you.
Balcony group · this week 31°C & dry
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The heat pulled Thursday’s watering a day earlier. You’ll get one reminder for the whole group — not seven.
Your home, mappedExplore the home map →
The right plant, in the right corner
Draw your rooms, mark where plants actually live, and let the app score each spot against what that species needs — measured from a photo of the light, not assumed.
Ideal — the band where this species thrives.
Acceptable — it’ll live, it just won’t show off.
Too dark — flagged before the plant tells you the hard way.
Four spots, scored against a Monstera’s real light needs.
381,479 species — and we tell you which ones we actually know
Built on an accepted botanical backbone. Thousands carry verified care profiles; the rest are honest name-only records — and every page says which it is.
is my monstera toxic to cats?
Search by common name, botanical name, or synonym — misspellings included.
5,071
species with verified care profiles
27,681
verified pet-safety records
31,163
detailed plant pages you can read right now
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verification tiers, shown on every record
“Not on the toxic list” is not the same as safe
Most apps give two answers. Reality has three — and the third one is the one that protects your animal.
Assessed safe
Explicitly cleared for this animal in our toxicity records. Not inferred from silence — actually checked and recorded.
“Listed as non-toxic to dogs, cats and horses.”
Not assessed
Nobody has tested this plant against this animal. We say exactly that — because saying nothing reads as “safe”, and that's how animals get hurt.
“Birds haven't been assessed, so we don't know. Keep it out of reach and ask an avian vet.”
We hold 27,681 verified toxicity records — and we will never fill a gap in them with a guess. Check a plant against your pet →
Marketplace
A shop that understands the plant you’re holding
Diagnosis without a remedy is just bad news. The shop reads your plant’s actual problem and filters to what fixes it — from independent growers, not a warehouse.
Herb spots compacted soil in your photo.
The rail filters to mixes that solve that — never a category fallback that would sell you the thing that caused it.
You buy from a real nursery, message them directly, and track the order.
Chunky aroid mix · 5L
Verdura Co
Matched to Vinny's drainage problem — bark + perlite, not a general potting soil.
₹449Fixes your issue
Terracotta pot · 8in, drainage
Casa Verde
Your last repot note said “no drainage hole”. This one has one.
₹690From your timeline
Neem oil concentrate
PlantLab
Suggested after a spider-mite diagnosis — organic, as you asked.
₹320Organic
Maya
Third propagation from the same monstera. This one's going to my sister.
🌱 PropagatorRui
Anyone else's basil bolting in this heat? Herb says shade it after 2pm.
Priya
Rescued this fern from a office bin. Six weeks later — look at it.
🏆 Plant rescuerSam
PSA: that “non-toxic” list you googled didn't check birds. This app does.
João
Selling here for 3 months. The care-match rail sends people the right soil first time.
✅ Verified vendorCommunity
Plant people, minus the guesswork
Share what’s thriving, ask about what isn’t, and follow growers whose climate looks like yours. Moderated properly, so the feed stays worth reading.
See the community →Before you download
Yes — the free Hobbyist plan covers up to 10 plants, 30 AI plant scans a day, watering schedules, the community and the marketplace. Chatting with Herb and soil intelligence are on the paid plans.
Most apps answer from a general-purpose AI model's memory. LeafRanger answers from a verified catalogue of 381,000+ species — and if your plant is one we hold only a name for, adding it triggers a real lookup that fills in its care data in about five seconds. Only when that genuinely finds nothing does Herb say so, rather than inventing a number to cover the gap.
Android first. The iOS app is in development — watering reminders already work there, but we're finishing push notifications before release. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you the day each one lands.
Every record is graded — the tier tells you — how thoroughly that record has been verified — so you always know how much weight to give it.
For the 27,000+ species we hold a toxicity record for, yes — and we give three answers, not two: harmful, assessed as safe, or not assessed. 'Not in the harmful list' is not the same as safe, and we never blur that line.
No. Tell Herb you're a beginner and he'll adjust how he explains things. The app groups plants that need watering together, adapts the schedule to your weather, and tells you what's due today.
Vendors get a storefront, order management, analytics and buyer chat. Sellers set their own delivery times and shipping, and we monitor fulfilment — repeat problems mean suspension. See the pricing page for current commission.
Start with one plant
Add the one you’re most worried about. Herb will tell you what he knows — and, just as usefully, what he doesn’t.
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