Interesting plant names, I want them ALL!!!

9 years ago

We were talking about common plant names and their AKA Latin names. I use both. I love the music of both. One is like Italian opera and the other has all the folksy magic of outsider poetry.

Add yours that you like. I will start it out with a small list. Broom Whitlow Wort, Fringed Puccoon, Strangle weed, Witches shoe laces, beggar's lice, Toadflax, Shame Boy, Devil's claw,Bladderpod.

come on , Add to the list.

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gardenweed_z6a
9 years ago
Talk about a mouthful:

Nipponanthemum nipponicum - Montauk daisy
Polychroma spurge euphorbia - cushion spurge

Then the really tough one:

Iris

Aptly named:

Chelone lyonii/turtlehead
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And one that (at least in my mind) defies definition, description or explanation:

Bugloss...huh?
gyr_falcon
9 years ago
Kangaroo Paws (Anigozanthos)
Hens and Chicks

and one of my favorites...
Fried egg orchid (Dendrobium chrysotoxum)
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According to what I found on Google, the cultivar you're asking about is a cultivar of the spectabilis type so I'm guessing at this time of year in Zone 5 it's either dormant or soon will be. D. spectabilis is a reliable spring blooming perennial in my zone that goes yellow & dormant not long after flowering. If the roots were well-established when you planted it, I'd expect it to show up again next spring. It's been a tough old bird in my garden beds for many years. I doubt it will survive winter if you're growing it in a container altho' the WFF website says it's hardy to Z3. A plant needs to be hardy to at least two zones colder than its range in order to come through winter in a container. You can sink the container into the ground to increase your chance of seeing it survive the winter. An added note--I've never fertilized or fed any of my bleeding hearts over the past 30 years. As with most perennials, they simply don't need it if they're growing in healthy soil. If your soil is healthy & rich in organic material, your perennials will thrive without fertilizer, especially chemicals. Below is a link I found to information on your plant at White Flower Farms. Here is a link that might be useful: D. spectabilis Valentine at White Flower Farm
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
9 years ago
you have to hear it with a whispered echo in your head:

liquidamber ...

there are others i will have to dredge up ....

ken
jadeite
9 years ago
Redbirds in a tree - much more musical than scrophularia macrantha

Cheryl
TexasRanger10
9 years ago
I had to look liquidamber up. Sweet Gum. Cool name, real smooth.

I can do the slothful part real quick. Takes me a while to do the latin so I did my google homework. Here's my list so far:

Jumping Cholla (Opuntia bigelovii)
Coyote Candles (Opuntia imbricata)
Devil's Head Cactus (Echinocactus texensis)
Nipple Cactus (Mammillaria heyderi)
Arrowhead Plant (Sagittaria longiloba)
Snake Herb (Dyschoriste linearis)
Clammyweed (Polanisia dodecandra)
Bitterweed (Hymenoxys odorata)
Dotted Button Snakeroot (Liatris punctata)
Compass Plant (Lactuca serriola) I want one.
Skeleton Plant (Lygodesmia texana)
Cowpen Daisy (Verbesina encelioides)
Cota (Thelesperma filifoium)
Dodder (Cuscuta squamata)
Beadpop (Lesquerella gordonii) My earliest bloomer
Wooly Loco (Astralagus mollissimus) I want one
Hog Potato (Hoffmanseggia glauca)
"Wait-a-Minute" (Mimosa borealis)
Stick-Leaf (Mentzelia nuda)
Angel Trumpets (Acleisanthes longiflora)
Futtermill (Oenothera missouriensis)
Old Man's Beard (Cematis drummondii)
Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja)
Desert Candle (Dasylirion wheeleri)
Fairy Duster (Calliandra eriophylla)
Rattlebox (Senna covesii)
Spanish Dagger or S. Bayonet (Yucca torreyi)

woops, just looked up strangleweed. Thats another name for Dodder which is kind of creepy sounding so I like it. Strangleweed is new one on me. Maybe Dodderin' Strangleweed?

This post was edited by TexasRanger10 on Sat, May 10, 14 at 23:11
diggerdee zone 6 CT
9 years ago
I love some of the common names of annuals - love in a mist, love in a puff, love lies bleeding, kiss me over the garden gate - so poetic and dramatic, lol! The perennial bleeding heart fits in this category as well.

Also, Queen Anne's Lace, and a favorite from childhood, butter and eggs - perfectly descriptive, both of them! And there's bachelors buttons, toad lilies, snapdragons, bells of ireland...

One of my favorite latin names is cimicifuga, although I admit to being afraid to actually say it in public, in case I trip over my own tongue. Luckily, not too many opportunities come up in everyday conversation to say it.... :)

Fun thread!
Dee
garyfla_gw
9 years ago
Hi
Two latin names Johanneistasjmannia try saying that in latin lol Alocasia infernalis which would translate "out of hell" or "hell like"?? Don't get it lol
Two common names "Palm orchid" as you would suspect it doesn't belong in either family
"Drunkards dream" try conjuring up a pic of what that looks like lol gary
laceyvail 6A, WV
9 years ago
There's a Euonymus known as Hearts a bustin with love. Unfortuneatly, deer love it too.
User
9 years ago
mmm, I also like both, especially when the latin nominates are utterly descriptive (amorphophallus). But anyway, here's a few off the top of my head
Hottentot Fig - Carpobrotus edulis
Hogweed (hieraceum spondilifera)
Codlins and cream - epilobium hirsutum
Skullcap - scutellaria
cocksfoot - dactylis glomerata
restharrow - ononis
enchanter's nightshade - circaea
henbane - hyocyamus niger
Ladies bedstraw - galium verna
Dame's rocket -hesperis matronalis
bladder campion - silene

all these are in my woods
shadeyplace
9 years ago
skunk cabbage, coltsfoot, bloodroot, Dutchman's breeches, trout lily, pussytoes!, cuckoo flower, jack in the pulpit, Solomon's seal, goatsbeard, catnip, heal-all,and for mother's day>>motherwort. (leonurus cardiac)
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
9 years ago
i would like to here latin names with a texas ranger twang/drawl ... lol

ken
sunnyborders
9 years ago
In the interests of the precise identification of plants:

A current issue is the growing tendency for the plant trade to use trademark and other selling names instead of botanical cultivar names.
ninamarie
9 years ago
LINARIA triornithophora - Three birds flying
St. Mary's Thistle - Silybum marianum.
I and most children under 10 start sniggering at the latin name of the latter.
TNflowerlover Zone 7a
9 years ago
How about a combo of Latin and common names? I sent my husband a list of what I bought at the sale at the local agricultural center. Streptocarpus Blue Birds was on the list.....he asked if I bought strep throat for blue birds. Poor plant....that is what I call it now. :)

Interesting plant names, I want them ALL!!!

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