With "knowledge, authority, charm and eloquence," author explains reasons for scientific nomenclature, history of terms, components, other helpful material.

Lists more than sixteen thousand scientific and vernacular plant names, and describes name origins and the characteristics of plants

Botanical names can be baffling to even the most experienced gardener. But a plant's botanical name is more than just a handy label—it can tell a plant's coun

Stearn's classic dictionary of the meaning and origin of some 6,000 botanical names

Let the experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens guide you around the beautiful and mysterious world that is the plant kingdom. From regulating the air we breathe t