Knowing the common plant names is important in order for you to build a good windowsill herb garden.

Plenty of botanical shops handle seeds and full-grown plants using their common plant names, and thus you must be in a position to match these names with scientific names. There are many paths to do such a job. You can use plant databases and plant encyclopedias, as these references would give you pictures of the plants along with the list of all their names. If you have kept any of the seed packets when you purchased your plants, you will see that they tend to name the scientific name with the common plant name.

In most cases, a standard plant name is the Latin version of the name interpreted into English. Diverse common plant names for herbs include Cudweed, Duckweed, Dove, Ammania, Beggarticks, annual, Buttercup, Conzya, Crimson Monkeyflower, among others . For flowering plants, we have got the African lily, Alpine thistle, bells of Eire, tulips, roses, clover, Amaryllis, gerber daisy, Amazon lily, baby’s breath, and masses more.

If you are somewhere within a region where deadly plants thrive and grow, being able to know their common plant names will be ready to forestall any puzzlement if ever you or someone you know ( particularly your buddies and family ) will be exposed to them. Diverse names for deadly plants include poison oak, belladonna, alder buckthorn, foxglove, monk’s hood, poison sumac, poison ivy, pokeweed, English ivy, poison hemlock and yew.… Continue reading →