AKA….Plant names 101

For the love of god, why?????

It’s probably the last thing anyone wants to learn about plants – their Latin binomial. I’m not geeky enough to say that it’s fun and exciting, but it does have three stellar things going for it:

1) It will also save you time and energy when talking about plants, because you know the other person is talking about the same plant,

2) You’ll learn so much more about plant relationships,

3) It might just save your life – don’t go eating plants if you don’t know what they are!

Taxonomy, binomials, and how to write plant names after the jump…
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