There is a wonderful tool called Google Image Search. You can use it to ID any number of things. I have found it doesn't work as great on IDing plants as it does on other things but it all depends on what you're trying to ID. Here is an instructional on it. I did this over in the Gardening for Butterflies, Birds and Bees forum in the Bird Photos June 2018 thread when we were trying to ID a particular bird.

See the second choice here? That's the one I click on OR you can bookmark the page when we get there.
https://www.google.com/search?...
So now I click & get this:
https://images.google.com/?gws...
I'm going to do a screenshot of that also so you can see it:

See the little camera symbol there? Click on it. You get this:

You can see that you have the option of pasting an image URL OR of uploading an image. I almost always prefer uploading an image so I'm going to click on that option & you see this:

Now I click on "choose file"
Earlier I had done a screen shot of Cece's bird. I did that b/c I wanted to cut as much out of the photo as I could to leave only the bird itself. The reason for that is that, in this case, we are looking to ID the bird not the entire photo, IOW, not find a copy of the entire photo on the internet. This is the screenshot I had taken:

From there you just choose the photo like you do when you want to upload a photo to anywhere.
This is what Google image gave me:

From there I did searches for "green tanager" in Brazil.

Excellent Ann, I love this and have already used it to ID a caterpillar I found in my garden. It worked like a charm thanks to your great instructions. Well written and VERY handy! Thanks for posting it!

Oh yay! I'm so glad it worked for your caterpillar.

Thank you Joanna for reminding me to post it on this forum.

Thank you Ann. I look forward to using this feature soon!

Ann, that is wonderful!

I just tried it with Pileated WP photo. Interesting thing was, the picture on my laptop was labeled Pileated Woodpecker and the search came up saying, Best Guess for this image is Pileated Woodpecker.

I decided to try something else so I changed the name on my photo to "Bird" and the result came up saying, Best Guess for this image is Ivory Billed WP.

I then tried with a photo of a Carolina Wren photo with no name at all and it came back saying, Best Guess for this image is Carolina Wren.

Tanks so much for sharing this fun tip for image identification!

plantladylin said:Ann, that is wonderful!

I just tried it with Pileated WP photo. Interesting thing was, the picture on my laptop was labeled Pileated Woodpecker and the search came up saying, Best Guess for this image is Pileated Woodpecker.

I decided to try something else so I changed the name on my photo to "Bird" and the result came up saying, Best Guess for this image is Ivory Billed WP.

I then tried with a photo of a Carolina Wren photo with no name at all and it came back saying, Best Guess for this image is Carolina Wren.

Tanks so much for sharing this fun tip for image identification!

Interesting differences you got there. It isn't perfect but it's a very good tool. Just like the search I did on the bird ~~~ it came up with Summer Tanager which is in line with what our female summer tanagers look like here in the US. I knew though, that Summer Tanagers did not occur where Cecilia took that photo in South America, thus I searched only for tanager in Brazil.

Thank you for you little mini tutorial. They talk about this tool on Reddit plant ID forum all the time but I'd not tried it before. You gave very clear instructions.

Peggy!