Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Common names for plants
Date: Mar 18 19:04:20 2011
From: Dennis Paulson - dennispaulson at comcast.net


Thanks, Jane. I suppose what I was thinking of was trees, as I am fairly certain there is an "official" list of tree names for North America. That does leave an awful lot of plants in limbo . . . . but of course they don't care what we call them!

I'm all for official common names. We generated them for dragonflies, and I think one of the consequences was that the interest in that group took a tremendous uptick. But thank goodness we have scientific names, which are constant for anyone in the world no matter their native language.

Dennis
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Dennis Paulson
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On Mar 18, 2011, at 6:13 PM, McComb Gardens wrote:

> "but more and more groups of animals (and I guess plants) have "official" common names now"
>
> I wish this was true; but, it is not.
> I know of 4 different species of plants that are called chokeberry.
> It is geographic and cultural.
>
> Wings,
> Jane
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