Botanical Names
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
That's all well and good for Romeo and Juliet, but when serious gardeners talk about their plants, most try to use the botanical names instead of the common names. It strikes some non-gardeners as pretentious to do so, but it is a matter of precision. For example, 'lilies' and 'daylilies' mean the same thing to many people when, in fact a lily is a 'lilium' and a daylily is a 'hemerocallis' and never the twain shall meet! 'Golden sundrops' may refer to entirely different plants in different parts of the country, but 'oenothera' is 'oenothera' wherever you go!
But in the interest of communication, my plant list includes both the botanical and the common names for the plants and shrubs in my garden!
PLANT LIST*
Botanical Name (Common Name)
Abeliophyllum distichum (White Forsythia)
Achillea (Yarrow)
Aegopodium (Bishop's Weed)
Ajuga (Bugleweed)
Allium (Ornamental Onion)
Amsonia (Blue Star Flower)
Artemisia (Wormwood)
Astilbe (Spirea)
Baptisia australis (False Indigo)
Campanula persicifolia (Peachleaf Bellflower)
Chrysanthemum maximum (Shasta Daisy)
Convallaria rosea (Pink Lily-of-the-Valley)
Coreopsis grandiflora (Tickseed)
Coreopsis verticilata (Threadleaf Coreopsis)
Dicentra spectabile (Bleeding Heart)
Dicentra eximia (Fringed Bleeding Heart)
Digitalis (Foxglove)
Echinacea (Purple Coneflower)
Fragaria 'Lipstick' (Ornamental Strawberry)
Heliopsis (False Sunflower)
Hemerocallis 'Stella d'Oro' (Daylily)
Hemerocallis 'Tall Chief' (Daylily)
Hemerocallis flava (Lemon Lily)
Hemerocallis fulva 'Kwanso' (Daylily)
Hosta (Funkia)
Iris Germanicus 'Pallida' (Bearded Iris)
Iris Siberica (Siberian Iris)
Lilium (Lily)
Lysimachia clethroides (Gooseneck)
Lysimachia punctata (Circle Flower)
Malva (Mallow)
Mentha (Mint)
Miscanthus sinensis (Eulalie Grass)
Monarda didyma (Bee Balm)
Oenothera Missouriensis (Sundrops)
Paeonia lactiflora (Chinese Peony)
Paeonia suffruticosa (Tree Peony)
Penstemon (Beard Tongue)
Phlox paniculata (Tall Summer Phlox)
Phlox subulata (Ground Phlox)
Platycodon (Balloon Flower)
Rosa Hugonis (Rose)
Rudbeckia (Black-eyed Susan)
Salvia
Sedum
Sisyrinchium (Blue-Eyed Grass)
Stachys lantana (Lamb's Ears)
Stokesia (Stokes Aster)
Syringa x prestoniae (Lilac)
Thymus vulgaris (Thyme)
Tradescantia (Spiderwort)
Veronica 'Crater Lake Blue'
Veronica 'Minuet'
Viola 'Helen Mount'(Johnny Jump-ups)
Weigela 'Bristol Ruby'