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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether you are a morning brew enthusiast or a botany student, you have likely wondered about the identity card, like the ...

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems to me that Texans pronounce words differently than many others. When I look at an unfamiliar word, I pronounce it, at least in my mind, as it appears, syllable by ...

"'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 ...