System for automatically recognizing plants

The disclosure relates to a system for automatic recognition of plants, including a central server unit, a network, an automatic picture processing unit, a plant database unit, in which plant data are stored, a picture database unit, in which picture data related to plants are stored, and a mobile device with a camera, the camera of the mobile device configured to provide picture data of a plant and the picture data transmitted via the network to the server unit, the automatic picture processing unit together with the plant database unit and the picture database unit on the basis of the transmitted picture data is configured to perform a comparison with data in the plant database unit and the picture database unit and the transmitted picture data of the plant such, that the plant is defined and the definition can be is transmitted back to the mobile device.