Pain points of native plant recommendation tool
Problem
When users determine native plants suitable for their location, sunlight, and soil conditions, they must manually search across multiple regions, and the tool lacks features to exclude trees, input a zip code, or view a map. Additionally, users desire more information on deer resistance, growth speed, and plant sets for specific wildlife such as pollinators or wild turkeys.
Pain points
- Default suggestions favor common weeds, resulting in a thicket of brambles and thorns.
- Lack of map interaction; users must manually parse multiple regions to determine coverage.
- Lack of deer resistance information.
- Lack of growth speed information, making it hard to filter fast‑growing plants.
- Lack of plant‑set functionality, e.g., combinations good for wild turkeys or for season‑long pollination.
- Unable to exclude trees, causing suggestions to include large plants that are inconvenient to print.
Questions to verify
- Would you like the tool to include map interaction for quick location selection?
- Is there a need to provide filtering options to exclude trees and large plants?
- Does the tool support zip‑code input for precise location‑based recommendations?
Evidence
quote · @anonymous
it basically suggests me to just leave the most common weeds grow to end up with a heath covered in brambles/wild roses/various thorny weeds.
quote · @anonymous
more info on deer hardiness
quote · @anonymous
more info on growth speed (show only fast growers)
quote · @anonymous
it would be great if I could exclude trees from the list of suggested plants - it's much easier for me to print wildflowers and things like that, than an actual tree, where I live.
quote · @anonymous
No zip code input, no zoom out. It's either scroll repeatedly or allow you to get my location so that I can check some location in California. No thanks.
Disclaimer: this card is distilled by AI from community discussions as “pain point evidence”. It is a starting point for need analysis and validation, not a “validated market need”. AI has analytical limits; please open the original discussion above to manually verify before key decisions.