Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored digging & weeding Helianthus annuus (Common Sunflower)

Helianthus annuus (Common Sunflower)

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Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored digging & weeding Helianthus annuus (Common Sunflower)Since Latin became the standard language for plant naming in the eighteenth century, it has been intrinsically linked with botany. And while mastery of the classical language may not be a prerequisite for tending perennials, all gardeners stand to benefit from learning a bit of Latin and its conventions in the field. Without it, they might buy a Hellebores foetidus and be unprepared for its fetid smell, or a Potentilla reptans with the expectation