ABOUT

A quiet edition for the considered keeper.

A woman tending houseplants at a sunlit window
A quiet morning with a Monstera PHOTOGRAPHY · COURTESY UNSPLASH

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." — PLANTMOM
Hands tending a potted plant on a table A corner of a room with several houseplants

The masthead

PlantMom is written and edited by a small independent team. We publish care guides for 82,069 species, essays and field notes in the Journal, and a Sunday letter for subscribers. Contributing editors and photographers are credited individually on each piece. If you'd like to write for us, pitch at [email protected].

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.
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