How to Figure Out Latin Plant Names
If you ever wondered what the Latin name of your flower meant, I've listed a sampling of Latin epithets for you to get a general idea of what to expect from a plant just from its name. I've categorized these in sets of 10. Read on to learn ... [... more]
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English Garden Sudoku - English Garden
This game is played like traditional Sudoku however instead of numbers you use plant names. Each little nine by nine square must have the nine English plant names in it. Each line both horizontally and vertically must have each one of the English ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Gardener's Book of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins
 First compact dictionary to combine definitions of botanical names in general usage with derivation, facts, and lore, plus guides to pronunciation. Index provides cross-reference of 1,800 common plant names to corresponding botanical ones. [... more]
$9.97 (Save 33%)
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Standardized Plant Names
Standardized Plant Names [... more]
$36.45
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Plant Encyclopedia -
This comprehensive database of over 38,000 plants can be searched using common plant names, botanical or family names. Detailed plant care sheets include information on growing conditions, common pests and diseases. Please click here to access ... [... more]
Backyard Gardener |
A Study of Plant Names
Every gardener is an idealist and dreamer; perhaps never more so than during the long winter and early spring months when she has ample time and opportunity to study her seed catalogs. She diligently examines their pages gaining a fund of ... [... more]
Backyard Gardener |
Understanding Plant Names, or The Importance of Being ...
To know a plant's taxonomy is to know its disposition and habits, its likes and dislikes, its friends and enemies If I were given a packet of seeds labeled with the botanical name Phaseolus coccineus, I would know that there was a bean involved, ... [... more]
Fine Gardening |
What's in a Name? Taxonomy
Plant names can be frustrating, especially the scientific names (botanical epithets or binomials) and especially when those change once you've finally gotten them to stick in your brain. Why are they important? Where did they come from? And, why ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Trilingual Dictionary Of Plant Names / English French ...
Trilingual Dictionary Of Plant Names / English French German / Handwoerterbuch Der Pflanzennamen / Englisch Franzoesich Deutch / Dictionnaire Des Noms [... more]
$162.25
A1 Books |
A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and ...
Review of "A Gardener's Book of Plant Names": I needed a book to use to give me the derivation of the scientific names for plants found in the wild throughout California. I looked at fifteen books at the University of California Davis Library [... more]
$14.95
Amazon.com |
Dictionary of Plant Names: Botanical Names and Their ...
Book Description: Wonderfully useful and complete, this little book includes common name cross-references, geographical distribution, and name origins, all at a bargain price. Pronunciations given are decidedly Britannic, but this seems a trivial matter [... more]
$12.95
Amazon.com |
Plant Names Demystified - Landscaping
The same plant can be known by different common names in various areas of the country. On the other hand, a plant will only have one legitimate Latin name though there can also be synonyms by which it is known. Understanding the Latin names means ... [... more]
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