What is the scientific name of a plant made of?
Genus and species
What is the Standardized Plant Names
A dictionary of plants names adopted by the American joint committee on horticultural nomenclature
Which name comes first in the scientific name?
Genus
Which part of the scientific name as always capitalized?
The genus name as always capitalized
Who created the scientific naming of plants
Swedish botanist, Linnaeus
What is the system of naming plants called
Binomial system of nomenclature
What does the genus indicate?
A group of closely related plants.
What is a species?
Plants within a genus are divided into subgroups called species
What is a botanical variety?
A naturally occurring subgroup within a species that is different enough in appearance from the remaining members of the species
What does "var." mean
Botanical variety
What is a cultivar or cultivated variety
The cultivar designates a special group of individuals (significant for the purposes of agriculture, forestry, or horticulture) that retain their distinguishing features when propagated
How is the cultivar name written
And the common language and it set off by single quotation marks
Why should the retail nursery sales person know the correct botanical and accepted common names of the plants he is selling
So that he can communicate with suppliers and consumers
How are genius and species names derived?
Countries of origin, names of plants explorers, descriptive Latin terms
Why would aucuba, fatsia and mahonia be grouped together
As plants that prefer part shade to shade, even though botanically they are unrelated
What is the difference between a horticultural classification and a botanical classification?
Horticultural classification group plants according to their growth. Botanical classifications group plants according to their morphological and physiological characteristics
White or the typical horticultural groupings?
Herbaceous or Woody, lifespan, leaf retention, growth habit, stem structure, size, form, temperature tender, light, water and use
What is the difference between a cultivar and variety?
Cultivar- designates a special group of individuals (significant for the purposes of agriculture, forestry or horticulture) that retain their distinquishing properties when propagated but does not produce true to seed. Written in common language and set o
Who is Linnaeus?
Swedish botanist who created the binomial system of nomenclature (a system of naming plants)
Why is it important to know the common and scientific names of plants?
So that he/she can communicate with suppliers and consumers
What are some origins of botanical names?
Countries of origin, names of plant explorers and descriptive Latin terms
What are the 11 typical groupings of plants when they are classified by growth characteristics?
(I) Herbaceous or Woody (II) Life Span (III) Leaf Retention (IV) Growth Habit (V) Stem Structure (VI) Size (VII) Form (VIII) Temperature Tender (IX) Light (X) Water (XI) Use
affinis
related
alatas
winged
alba
white
albiflorus
white flowered
alpestris
nearly alpine
alpinus
alpine (relating to high mountains)
alterniflora
alternate-leaved
altissima
tallest
amabilis
lovely
angulatus
angular, angles
*angustifolia
narrow-leaved
apiculata
short-pointed tip
aquifolium
holly leaved
*arborea
treelike, woody
arenarius
of sand or sandy places
*argentea
silvery
attenuata
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slender
*aureus
golden
australis
southern
baccatus
berried
barbatas
barbed, bearded
bipinnata
twice pinnate (leaflets on each side of a petiole, like a feather)
brevicaulis
short stemmed
buxifolius
box leaved
campestris
of the fields or plains
canadensis
from Canada
canididus
pure white, shining
*coccineus
scarlet
communis
common, general
concolor
of uniform color
confertus
crowded, pressed together
*cordate
heart shaped
crassifolius
thick leaved
*crenata
toothed, teeth round
crenulatus
finely scalloped
cuspidata
short, rigid point
cyaneus
blue
debillis
weak, frail
denticulata
toothed slightly or minutely
dimorphous
occuring in two forms
densiflorus
heavily flowered
decorus
elegant
decurrens
running down the stem
*dioecious
male and female flowers on separate plants
divergens
wide spreading
edulis
edible
elatus
tall
elegans
elegant, beautiful
elongatus
elongated, lengthened
falcatus
like a sickle
*fastigiatus
branches erect, close together
floridus
flowering freely
fragilis
fragile, brittle
fruticosus
shrubby
glauca
with white or gray as on blue spruce
*globosa
globe shaped
gracilis
graceful, slender
herbaceous
non-woody above ground stem
hirsuta
with coarse or stiff hairs
illicifolius
ilex-leaved, holly leaved
inermis
unarmed, without thorns
*japonica
of Japan
laciniatus
torn, fringed
lanceolate
Shaped like a lance head.Several times longer than wide, broadest at the base and narrowing to the apex
lineatus
with lines or stripes
littoralis
of the seashore
lucidus
bright, shining clear
lusitanicus
yellow
mas
male
marginatus
with a margin or striped
maximus
largest
*macrophyllus
large leaved
*microphyllia
small leaved
mollis
soft,soft-hairy
monoecious
separate male and female flowers on the same plant
monstrosus
monstrous, abnormal
mucronata
with small, abrupt tip
multicolor
many colored
nana
dwarf
*niger, nigra
black, dark
nivalis
snowy white
obtusa
blunt
occidentalis
western
oxyacanthus
sharp-spined
papyifera
paper bearing
parviflorus
small fowered
*pendulus
pendulous, hanging
petiolaris
with a leaf stalk
pisifera
pea-bearing
platucladus
broad-branched
plidcata
planted, folded lenthwise
polyanthus
many flowered
procerus
tall
procumbens
trailing, prostrate
prolifera
many leaved
prostratus
lying flat
pubescens
short, short hairs (downy)
pumilis
dwarf
purpurea
purple
pyramidalis
like a pyramid, inverted cone
quinquefolia
five leaves or leaflets
radiatus
rayed
*radicans
rooting
recurvata
bent backward, reversely curved
repens, reptans
creeping
rex
king
rhytidiophyllus
wrinke-leaved
rigidus
stiff
rotundifolius
round-leaved
rugosa
wrinkled
saccharum
sugar
saxatilis
found among rocks
scabrous
rough to the touch
semperviren
evergreen
serrata
serated, toothed
speciousus
showy
squamatus
with scale like leaves or bracts
stellata
star like
stoloniferous
producing runners that root
stricta
upright, with few or no branches
suffruticosa
shrubby
*sylvatica
forest loving
ternatus
in trees (as clover leaflets)
termuloides
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givering, trembling
triacanthos
three spined
truncata
cut off squarely
umbraculifera
umbrella-bearing
vegetus
vigorous
verrucosa
warty
verticullatus
whorled
virdis
green
viscosus
sticky
vulgaris
common
whorl
leaves or other parts in a circle around stem