Leafy Plant
AIIdentify plants from a photo and look up horticultural care data with the Leafy Plant API. Search 40,000-plus species and fetch watering, light, soil, and temperature guidance.
What This Integration Enables
Leafy Plant turns a plant photo into structured knowledge. Identification returns candidate species with confidence, species search covers a very large catalog, and the care lookup returns the specifics a plant owner needs: how much water, how much light, what soil, what temperature range. For a plant business, that automates the most common inbound question. The catch is that plant-care advice has real stakes when a species is toxic to pets or the identification is uncertain. An orchestration layer returns the confident, low-stakes answers directly and routes the risky ones to an expert, and FlowRunner is built for that layer.
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Use Case Scenarios
Customer Plant Identification
A customer submits a photo asking what their plant is and how to care for it. The agent identifies the species, reads the confidence, and fetches the matching care guide. Confident identifications return the species and a care plan directly. The most common inbound question is answered in seconds instead of waiting on a staff member.
Care Reminder Setup
A plant-care app wants to schedule reminders tailored to each plant. The agent identifies the plant, pulls its watering and light needs, and configures a reminder schedule from the care data. The schedule is built from horticultural data rather than a generic default, and every plant gets appropriate care timing.
Inventory Enrichment
A garden retailer needs care information attached to each product. The agent matches each item to its species, pulls the care guide, and enriches the product record. Listings carry accurate care details without a person researching each one, and a horticulturist reviews anything the match flagged as uncertain.
Human-in-Loop Highlight
Plant-care advice sounds harmless until the species is toxic to pets or the identification is a guess. When Leafy Plant returns a low-confidence match, or identifies a species flagged as toxic, FlowRunner routes it through a [human-in-the-loop](/concepts/human-in-the-loop/) step before advice reaches the customer: the agent pauses, presents the photo and the candidate matches, and sends it to a horticulturist via Slack. They confirm the species. The routine identifications answer themselves; a person checks the ones a customer would act on with consequences.
Agent Capabilities
4 actionsIdentification
2- Identify Plant Identifies a plant from a publicly accessible image URL. Returns ranked candidate species with scientific and common names, a confidence label, and a description of what was seen.
- Search Plants Searches the Leafy plant database by common or scientific name. Returns a list of matching plants with their family, genus, slug, and care/toxicity availability flags.
Care
2- Get Care Guide Returns a care guide for a plant species, including watering, light, soil, and temperature guidance.
- Get Toxicity Returns plant toxicity information for humans and pets. Provide a plant species and optionally an animal to check (e.g. cat, dog, horse).
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