Plant to draw
Draw a random flower, tree, houseplant or wild plant - each one labelled.
Runs locally in your browser. Nothing you generate is ever sent to a server.
Press "Generate" to see a result here.
Group
Press Generate and a plant comes up, labelled as a flower, a tree, a houseplant or a wild plant. Keeping those groups separate matters, because what you want from the list is completely different depending on which one you are after.
Botanical drawing is much harder when you cannot choose the subject. Left to ourselves we draw the shapes we already know how to draw, and improvement stalls. A random plant forces you to look at something unfamiliar and work out its structure, which is the part that actually builds skill.
If a draw lands on a houseplant and you are tempted, the reliable ones are the snake plant, pothos and ZZ plant. All three tolerate low light and forgetting to water, which is what kills most houseplants. The fiddle leaf fig at the other extreme is famous for dying if it is moved.
Whether any plant here will grow for you depends on your climate, soil, light and season, none of which a random draw knows about. Use a result as something to look up rather than something to buy - the local advice is what decides whether it lives.
The list is filtered to the group you chose, then a plant is drawn using your browser's cryptographic random source with rejection sampling, so nothing is favoured. Batches without repeats use a Fisher-Yates shuffle driven by the same source.
Choose Flowers in the filter and press Generate. One comes up, labelled so there is no confusion with trees or houseplants.
Yes. The filter switches between flowers, trees, houseplants and wild plants, or leave it open to mix them.
As a prompt rather than advice. Whether a plant will grow for you depends on your climate, soil and light, so treat a draw as something to look up rather than something to buy.
Yes. Botanical drawing gets much harder when you cannot choose the subject, which is exactly why a random draw is good practice.
Snake plant, pothos and ZZ plant are the usual answers - they tolerate low light and irregular watering better than most.
Yes. Each plant is drawn with your browser's cryptographic random source, so everything in the chosen group has an equal chance.