Houseplant delivery company Bloomscape recently acquired the Vera plant care app. The new collab allows users to compile virtual "plant profiles" for their greenery.

Once you photograph, identify, and name a plant, the app creates what is essentially a baseball card of stats on it: when it needs to be watered and fed, what kind of humidity and temperatures it likes, etc. Plus, it serves up fun new tidbits about your plant pal. (I'm proud to share that my Bird of Paradise, Ernst, is considered the queen of the indoor plant world.)

The type A plant parent can also use this one to track the last time they watered, fertilized, repotted, misted, and rotated their plants to keep on a consistent schedule or write in to Bloomscape's in-house greenery team with a question—all for free!

If you're unsure what kind of houseplant you have in the first place, Leafsnap can help you identify it. It's a good, basic app to start with if you were gifted greenery of unknown origins or forget whether that trailing plant in your bedroom is a philodendron or a pothos.

It's totally free to use but does serve up a fair number of ads.

Giving your plant the right lighting is essential, and Florish helps you easily gauge the direction and intensity of the light that filters in through your home's windows. Its free light reader tells you whether a space is suitable for bright, indirect-light plants, low-light plants, etc., and offers up suggestions for new plants to add to your space based on your lighting.

Like Bloomscape, it also lets you input your plants into a virtual plant collection and offers up a few basic care tips for each one.

To access most of the features on the Steward app, you'll need to opt into a subscription (around $10/month, depending on payment plan). The money goes toward custom plant maps that tell you exactly the right plants for your rooms' lighting, layout, and size. The app also connects you with a team of botanists who can help you choose new plants and better tend to your existing ones.

Simply take a video of your space (with special emphasis on the windows) and within a week or so, the Steward team will draw up a plant plan that auto-updates with the seasons.