[lioeters]

Perceiving plant gods and spirits is closer to experimental science, attempts to describe and make sense of your actual lived experience. Dismissing them without any evidence or experience, just because they don't fit in the worldview you grew up in, is closer to religion.

[Exoristos]

Perceiving plant gods and spirits is religion.

[t-writescode]

It's spirituality. Religions tend to have creeds.

You wouldn't call every animist belief the same religion's name. That's a loooot of religions that believe those things - the vast, vast majority of them, in fact.