Are you waiting for your snowdrops to bloom? Or do you prefer to call them Galanthus nivalis? “Nearly every kind of plant has more than one name,” said Julie Janoski, Plant Clinic manager at The ...

Bleeding hearts will be blooming soon, but you'd better not call them Dicentra spectabilis anymore, unless you add "formerly known as" before that moniker. That's because the plant has been officially ...

Plant nomenclature, or the naming of plants, has been around since 1753, and started with a Swedish botanist named Carl Von Linne. Latin names were given at the time as an internationally understood ...

Since the mid-1700s, researchers have classified life on Earth with scientific names, a two-word moniker like Homo sapiens. But some of these names are weighed down by problematic histories and ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I enjoyed your article on plant adaptations; it got me thinking about something I recently discovered when looking for a plant called mock orange. There were two — Pittosporum ...

Before I started gardening, one of the biggest hurdles in my head was how could I possibly remember any plant names. For me, it was right up there with understanding business accounting. Practically ...

"'Must a name mean something?' Alice asked doubtfully. 'Of course it must,' Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: 'My name means the shape I am — and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name ...