1 Introduction Monitoring plant communities has become increasingly important in the current context of global change. There is a growing demand for accurate inventories, including regular reporting for the EU Habitats Directive (EU 1992). However, conducting inventories of plant communities presents significant challenges (e.g., Godínez-Alvarez et al. 2009). Counting individual plants can be challenging due to their high abundance or clonal structure (Ståhl et al. 2017).