plant collection management
Bring order to your plant collections
Sepal is a plant collection manager for botanic gardens, arboreta, nurseries and personal collections. Full-featured where it counts, priced for collections that don't need an enterprise system, and open source so your records are never locked in.
credit card not required for signup · export your data any time
Built for collections large and small.
Taxon, accession, plant and location as separate records, related the way a curator expects.
Taxa, accessions, locations
Follow a plant from its name to its accession to the bed it grows in today.
Media library
Photos, scans and documents attached to the records they belong to.
Organizations and roles
Invite staff and volunteers with the access each of them needs.
Fast search
Look up any record by name, number, family or location as you type.
Import and export
Start from your spreadsheets, and take a full copy out at any time.
Hosted or self-run
We handle servers and backups, or run the same code yourself.
open source
Your records outlive any software.
Sepal is developed in the open. You can read the code, run it yourself, and export everything you've entered. Nothing about your collection depends on us staying in business.
sepal-app/sepal on GitHub
Your full collection in standard spreadsheet formats, on demand — not a support request.
The application is free to install elsewhere, so leaving the hosted service doesn't mean leaving Sepal.
Anyone can see what we're building and what's coming next.
10% of all profits are donated to Belize Botanic Gardens.
A share of every subscription supports living-collection conservation and education work in Belize.
Priced for smaller collections
Signup today, credit card not required.
Personal
$10 / mo
Small private, public or personal collections
- 500 accessions
- 2 GB media storage
Garden
$40 / mo
Small gardens and nurseries
- 3,000 accessions
- 10 GB media storage
Institution
$150 / mo
Larger collections
- Unlimited accessions
- 50 GB media storage
- API access
- Priority support
Larger instances, higher limits or self-hosting support — get in touch.
Common questions
How does Sepal compare to other plant collection management systems?
Plant collections management software is generally built for large institutions and priced accordingly. Sepal covers the core of collection management for a lower cost, aimed at smaller gardens and individual collectors who don't need the full feature set. Sepal also open-source so you can choose to export your records at any time and run your own instance of Sepal.
Can I bring existing records in?
Yes. Spreadsheet import is supported, and we'll help map columns from another system.
What if I stop using the hosted service?
Export everything, then run the open source application on your own infrastructure.
Do I need to pay to try it?
No. Signup doesn't require a credit card and comes with either a 14 or 30 free trial period. If you need to extend your trial just contact us.