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HerbMedPro American botanical Council. UM-Dearborn College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters. Résultat. WHO-FAO. ENDA : Base des plantes médicinales - Accueil. Plantes médicinales - Bibliothèques de l'université Rennes 2. Muscat. HAL :: Accueil. Page d'accueil - Horizon. The Meanings of Plant Names - Medicinal Plant Name Services Blog. By: Jason Irving - 05/11/2013 In the first in a series of posts about plant nomenclature, Jason Irving explains the meanings of some Latin plant names and what they can tell us. Can you tell what the difference will be between Lamium album and Lamium purpureum from the names alone? Would you rather crush and smell the leaves of Paederia foetida or Galium odoratum? At MPNS we are keen to emphasise the importance of using the correct Latin scientific names for plants, but these names can seem confusing and alien to the uninitiated.

However, not only do scientific names indicate the botanical classification of a plant, the meanings of the Latin (or Latinised) terms used in the names contain all sorts of information about a plant which can hopefully make them easier to identify and remember. The one lesson in grammar I have learned through trial and error is that, although the endings of a word may change, the stem is normally still easy to recognise and can tell you a lot about the plant.