When strolling through a garden center or flipping through a plant catalog, you’ll often notice two distinct names on each tag: a common name and a botanical name. While the common name feels friendly ...
Passiflora incarnata, Nymphaea odorata, Chamaecrista fasciculata, Asclepius incarnata! Sounds like spells from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, doesn’t it? While these words could come ...
"This is a revised edition of A Gardener's dictionary of plant names, revised and enlarged in 1972 by William T. Stearn from A.W. Smith's A Gardener's book of plant names, 1963"--T.p. verso.