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  • <i>buxus</i>  +
  • A sea-nymph in Greek mythology, allusion obscure  +
  • Aboriginal name in French Guiana  +
  • Abridged from Greek Staphylodendron, ancient name for the genus  +
  • After John Torrey (1796–1873), distinguished U.S. botanist  +
  • After the Swedish botanist E. Tillands, 1640–1693  +
  • Alexander’s rock aster  +
  • Alluding to Mohave River  +
  • Alteration of genus name Lasianthus  +
  • American Indian assimin through French asiminier  +
  • An ancient name or, perhaps, derived from generic name Gnaphalium  +
  • Anagram of Allium  +
  • Anagram of Inula, name of another genus of Asteraceae  +
  • Anagram of Myginda, to which these species had been referred  +
  • Anagram of generic name Arabis  +
  • Anagram of generic name Lasia (now Forsstroemia), alluding to similarity  +
  • Anagram of generic name Malpighia  +
  • Anagram of generic name Mitella  +
  • Anagram of generic name Stenotus  +
  • Anagram of genus name Pterogonium  +
  • Anagram of specific epithet salmantica  +
  • Anagram, for Thomas Smith, English microscopist, died ca. 1825  +
  • Ancient Arabic name  +
  • Ancient Celtic name for plant known to Druids  +
  • Ancient Greek asaron, name of an unknown plant  +
  • Ancient Greek name for plants of the genus  +
  • Ancient Greek name psidion for Punica, alluding to supposed resemblance  +
  • Ancient Greek name used by Theophrastus for plant used to curdle milk  +
  • Ancient Latin name for bramble, from ruber, red  +
  • Ancient Latin or Greek plant name  +
  • Ancient name for an endive-like plant, attributed to Pliny  +
  • Ancient name for fleabane  +
  • Ancient name used by Pliny for a Polygonum taxon  +
  • Ancient name used by Theophrastus for a Salix taxon  +
  • Ancient name, perhaps from Greek malache, mallow  +
  • Apparently from Chinese name for one of the species  +
  • Apparently from an African vernacular name  +
  • Arabic alloeh, a name for these or similar plants  +
  • Arabic assthirak, name for type species, S. officinalis  +
  • Arabic lufah, name for L. aegyptiaca  +
  • Arabic mouz  +
  • Arabic name doronigi  +
  • Arabic name qaqulleh  +
  • Arabic qartam, safflower  +
  • Arabic ribas, rhubarb, mistakenly applied to currants  +
  • Arabic tamr, a tree with dark bark  +
  • Arabic to Persian talkh chakok, a bitter herb  +
  • Association with the disease scrofula by the doctrine of signatures  +
  • Based on an anagram of Scott  +
  • Blysmus, a genus name, and Greek - opsis, likeness  +
  • C lassic Latin name derived from Greek ion, violet  +
  • Carib Indian name for Manihot, erroneously applied  +
  • Celtic ar mor, at seaside, alluding to habitat  +
  • Ceylonese vernacular name  +
  • Ceylonese vernacular name for a species of Abutilon  +
  • Chilean Native American (Mapuche) name for hardwood of Amomyrtus luma  +
  • Chinese name meaning "plant from the south"  +
  • Classical Greek name for a water nymph, alluding to habitat  +
  • Classical Latin name  +
  • Classical Latin name for European strawberry tree, A. unedo Linnaeus  +
  • Classical name for a species of myrtle  +
  • Columbia (River), and doria, an early name for goldenrods  +
  • Common name in Guiana  +
  • Country name Mexico and Latin malva, mallow  +
  • Derivation not given  +
  • Derivation uncertain  +
  • Derivation unknown  +
  • Dioscoridean name for A. arboreum  +
  • Diphasium, a generic name, and -astrum, incomplete resemblance  +
  • Etymology not clear  +
  • Etymology recondite  +
  • Etymology uncertain  +
  • Etymology unclear  +
  • Etymology unknown  +
  • For A. Q. Rivinus, 1652–1723, professor of botany at Leipzig  +
  • For Abbé N. A. Pluche, 1688–1761, French naturalist  +
  • For Abel Joel Grout, 1867 – 1947, American bryologist  +
  • For Abraham Munting, 1626 – 1683 Dutch botanist  +
  • For Adam Buddle, 1660–1715, English botanist, vicar of Farmbridge  +
  • For Alexander Karlovich Boschniak, 1786–1831, Russian botanist  +
  • For Alexander Russell, c. 1715–1768, Scottish physician and naturalist  +
  • For Alice Eastwood, 1859–1953, western American botanist  +
  • For Almut G. Jones, b. 1923, American Aster specialist  +
  • For Alphonse Luisier, 1872–1957, French bryologist  +
  • For Althaea, wife of King Oeneus of Aetolia or Calydon  +
  • For Anders Thiodolf Saelan, 1834–1921, Finnish botanist  +
  • For Andreas Elias von Büchner, 1701–1769, physician  +
  • For Antoine Guillemin, 1796–1842, French botanist, author, and explorer  +
  • For Antonio Krapovickas, b. 1921 Argentinian botanist  +
  • For Apache Indians  +
  • For Arnold Gillen, seventeenth-century German botanist and physician  +
  • For Atamisco region of Chile  +
  • For Atanasio Echevería y Godoy, fl. 1787–1803, Mexican botanical artist  +
  • For August Jaeger, 1842 – 1877, Swiss bryologist  +
  • For Augustin Sageret, 1763–1851, French botanist  +
  • For Benjamin Stillingfleet, 1702–1771, British botanist  +
  • For Bernardo Cienfuegos, ca. 1580 – ca. 1640, Spanish botanist  +
  • For Billie Lee Turner, b. 1925, American botanist  +
  • For C. Allioni, 1725–1804, Italian botanist  +
  • For C. V. Piper, American botanist of the Pacific Northwest  +
  • For Captain Soleirol, collector in Corsica  +
  • For Captain William Clark, 1770–1838, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition  +
  • For Carl Friedrich E. Warnstorf, 1837–1921, German teacher and botanist  +
  • For Carl Gustav Sanio, 1832–1891, German botanist  +
  • For Carson Desert of Nevada  +
  • For Charles Francis Greville, 1749–1809, Fellow of the Royal Society  +
  • For Charles V, 1500–1558, Holy Roman Emperor  +
  • For Charles Wilkens Short, 1794–1863, Kentucky botanist  +
  • For Charles l’Écluse, 1525 – 1609, Flemish botanist  +
  • For Chen Pan Chieh, 1907–1970, Chinese bryologist  +
  • For Christian Georg Schwalbe, eighteenth-century medical botanist  +
  • For Christian Mentzel, 1622–1701, German botanist  +
  • For Christian Schkuhr, 1741–1811, German botanist  +
  • For Christoph Ludwig Koeberlin, 1794–1862, German clergyman and botanist  +
  • For Claes Gustav Myrin, 1803 – 1835, Swedish bryologist  +
  • For Claude Aubriet, 1663–1743, French artist  +
  • For Daniel Cady Eaton, 1834–1885, American botanist  +
  • For David Daniels Keck, 1903–1995, California botanist, and ella, honor  +
  • For David Hieronymus Grindel, 1776–1836, Latvian botanist  +
  • For David Hoven, 1724–1787, Dutch senator and botanical patron  +
  • For David Krieg, 16??–1713, plant collector in Maryland and Delaware  +
  • For David M. Bates, b. 1935 American botanist, and Latin malva, mallow  +
  • For David Meese, 1723 – 1770, Dutch gardener  +
  • For David Townsend, 1787–1858, American amateur botanist  +
  • For Domingo Castillejo, 1744–1793, Spanish botanist  +
  • For Donald William Kyhos, b. 1929, Californian botanist  +
  • For Edward Smith Stanley, 1775–1851, British statesman and ornithologist  +
  • For Elva Lawton, 1896 – 1993 American bryologist  +
  • For Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim, 1764 – 1832, German paleontologist  +
  • For Ernst Gottfried Hornung, 1795–1862, German pharmacist in Schwarzburg  +
  • For Eugene Abraham Rau, 1848 – 1932, American bryologist  +
  • For Euphorbus, first-century A.D. Greek physician  +
  • For F. Bassi, 1710–1774, Italian naturalist  +
  • For F.L. de Laporte de Castelnau, leader of expeditions to South America  +
  • For Francis Duncan Kelsey, 1849 – 1905 Montana Botanist  +
  • For Francis Whittier Pennell, 1886–1952, American botanist  +
  • For Francisco Ximenes de Luna, 17th century Franciscan monk and botanist  +
  • For Franco Andrea Bonelli, 1784–1830, Italian zoologist  +
  • For Frantz Caspar Kiaer, 1835–1893, Norwegian bryologist  +
  • For François Descurain, 1658–1740, French botanist and apothecary  +
  • For François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy, 1663–1736, Austrian General  +
  • For Friedrich Hilpert, b. 1907, German bryologist  +
  • For Friedrich Wilhelm Weiss, 1744–1826, lichenologist of Göttingen  +
  • For G. Ledyard Stebbins, 1906–2000, California botanist  +
  • For G. Venturi, 1830–1898, Italian lawyer and bryologist  +
  • For G. W. Webster, 1833–1914, American botanist and farmer  +
  • For General José Palafox, 1776–1847, Spanish patriot  +
  • For George Engelmann, 1809–1884, German-American physician and botanist  +
  • For George Jones Goodman, 1904–1999, authority on Chorizanthe  +
  • For George Newton Best, 1846 – 1926 American bryologist  +
  • For George Suckley, 1830–1869, physician and naturalist  +
  • For George Tradescant Lay, a naturalist on Beechey’s voyage (1825–1828)  +
  • For George Wolfgang Wedel, 1645–1721, botanist/professor at Jena  +
  • For Gilbert Thereon Benson, 1896–1928, Stanford University botanist  +
  • For Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni, 1752 – 1822, Italian naturalist  +
  • For Gottleib Wilhelm T. G. Bischoff, 1797–1854, German botanist  +
  • For H. A. Crum, 1922–2002, American bryologist  +
  • For H. M. C. L. F. zu Solms-Laubach, 1842–1915, German botanist  +
  • For Hardy B. Croom, 1797–1837, the discoverer  +
  • For Harvey Monroe Hall, 1874–1932, Californian botanist  +
  • For Heinrich Gustav Floerke, 1764–1835, German lichenologist  +
  • For Helen of Troy  +
  • For Hendrik Christian Pentz, 1738–1803, Swedish plant collector  +
  • For Henry Seymer, 1714–1785, British collector  +
  • For Hieronymus Bock, 1498–1553, German botanist  +
  • For Hippocrates, ca. 460–370 BC, Greek physician  +
  • For Howard Alvin Crum, 1922–2002, American bryologist  +
  • For Ignatz Doellinger (1770–1841), German botanist  +
  • For Ignaz Seliger, 1752–1812, Silesian pastor  +
  • For Ingebrigt Severin Hagen, 1852 – 1917, Norwegian bryologist  +
  • For Istrán Lumnitzer, 1750–1806, Hungarian botanist  +
  • For J. A. N. de Nesle, eighteenth-century French gardener at Poitiers  +
  • For J. C. Buxbaum, 1693–1730, its discoverer  +
  • For J. F. Bahí, 1775–1841, professor of botany at Barcelona  +
  • For J. F. K. Grimm, 1737–1821, physician and botanist of Gotha, Germany  +
  • For J. G. R. Andreae, 1724–1793, apothecary of Hanover, Germany  +
  • For J. H. Jaume St. Hilaire, 1772–1845, French botanist  +
  • For J. J. Blind, pastor at Münster, 1834–1848  +
  • For J. L. Calandrini, 1703–1758, Swiss botanist  +
  • For J. R. Gowen, English collector in Assam  +
  • For Jacobus Bontius, 1592–1631, Dutch physician and botanist in Java  +
  • For James Bolton, fl. 1750s–1799, English botanist, artist  +
  • For James Donald Richards, 1920 – 1980, American bryologist  +
  • For James Petiver, 1658–1718, English apothecary and botanist  +
  • For Jean Jacques Kickx, 1842–1887, Belgian botanist  +
  • For Jean Louis Berlandier, 1805–1851, Belgian explorer in North America  +
  • For Jean-François Gaulthier, 1708–1756, botanist and physician of Québec  +
  • For Jens Christian Clausen, 1891–1969, Californian botanist  +
  • For Jeremiah Bernard Brinton, 1835–1894, of Philadelphia  +
  • For Johan Leche, 1704 – 1764, Swedish botanist  +
  • For Johan Ångström, 1813–1879, Swedish bryologist  +
  • For Johann Bartsch, 1709–1738, German physician  +
  • For Johann David Schoepf, 1752–1800, German physician and botanist  +
  • For Johann Emanuel Pohl, 1782 – 1834, physician of Dresden  +
  • For Johann Frankenius, 1590 – 1661, Swedish botanist  +
  • For Johann Gerhard König, 1827–1785, pupil of Linnaeus  +
  • For Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Voit, 1787 – 1813, German bryologist  +
  • For Johann Hedwig, 1730 – 1799, German bryologist and physician  +
  • For Johann Horkel, 1769–1846, German plant physiologist  +
  • For Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, 1672–1733, Swiss botanist  +
  • For Johannes Burman, 1707–1779, Dutch botanist  +
  • For Johannes Flüggé, 1775–1816, German botanist  +
  • For John Donnell Smith, 1829 – 1928, American taxonomist  +
  • For John Ernest Gunner, 1718–1773, Norwegian bishop and botanist  +
  • For John G. Packer, b. 1929, Canadian botanist  +
  • For John Gundlach, 1810–1896, naturalist and traveler  +
  • For John Kunkel Small, 1869–1938, American botanist  +
  • For John Macoun, 1831 – 1920 Canadian botanist and explorer  +
  • For John Shepherd, 1764–1836, curator of the Liverpool Botanic Garden  +
  • For John Sims, 1749–1831, British physician and botanist  +
  • For John Stuart, 1713–1792, Third Earl of Bute  +
  • For John Thomas Howell, 1903–1994, California botanist  +
  • For Jonathan Stokes, 1755–1831, English physician and botanist  +
  • For Josef Gottfried Mikan, 1743–1814, professor, University of Prague  +
  • For Joseph Prince Tracy, 1879–1953, Californian botanist  +
  • For José Antonio Pavón, 1754 – 1844, Spanish physician and botanist  +
  • For José Béjar, eighteenth-century professor of surgery at Cádiz, Spain  +
  • For Karl Darmer, 1843–1918, German botanist and horticulturist  +
  • For L. G. A. Viguier, 1790–1867, French physician  +
  • For Lavater family, 17th-century physicians and naturalists of Zurich  +
  • For Lincoln Constance, 1909–2001, Californian botanist  +
  • For Lloyd H. Shinners, 1918–1971, American botanist  +
  • For Lorenz Oken, 1779–1851, German naturalist  +
  • For Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac, 1778–1850, French chemist  +
  • For Louis de Noailles, 1713 – 1793, first Duc d’Ayen  +
  • For Lowell David Flyr, 1937–1971, Texan, synantherologist  +
  • For Ludwig Molendo, 1833–1902, German muscologist  +
  • For Manfred Dittrich, b. 1934, German botanist  +
  • For Manuel M. Villada, 1841–1924, Mexican scientist  +
  • For Marcello Malpighi, 1628–1694, Italian anatomist  +
  • For Martin Lister (1638–1711), noted English physician and naturalist  +
  • For Meriwether Lewis, 1774–1809, American explorer  +
  • For Michael S. Bebb, 1833–1895, American botanist and willow specialist  +
  • For Michelangelo Console, 1812–1897, of Palermo Botanic Garden, Italy  +
  • For Mithridates Eupator, King of Pontus, 132–63 B.C.  +
  • For Mrs. A’Court, a British amateur botanist  +
  • For N. Takaki, 1915–2005, who first collected the genus in Japan  +
  • For Natalis (Noël) Caperon or Capperon, d. 1572, apothecary of Orleans  +
  • For Nathanael Gottfried Leske, 1751 – 1786, botanist of Lei p zig  +
  • For Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth, 1802–1856, early western American explorer  +
  • For Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc, 1580–1637, French scholar  +
  • For Nicolas Louis Vauquelin, 1763–1829, French chemist and pharmacist  +
  • For Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin, 1727–1817, Austrian botanist  +
  • For Nils Bryhn, 1854 – 1916, Norwegian bryologist  +
  • For Nils Conrad Kindberg, 1832 – 1910, Swedish bryologist  +
  • For Noel Martin Joseph de Necker, 1730 – 1793, French botanist  +
  • For Ole Borch (Olaus Borrichius), 1626–1690, Danish botanist  +
  • For P. A. Munz, 1892–1974, American botanist, and Greek thamnos, shrub  +
  • For P. Loefling, 1729–1756, Swedish botanist and explorer  +
  • For Paul Ammann, 1634–1691, Professor of Botany at Leipzig  +
  • For Paul Arnold Fryxell, 1927 – 2011 American student of Malvaceae  +
  • For Paul Günter Lorentz, 1835–1881, German bryologist  +
  • For Paul Hermann, 1646 – 1695, German-born Dutch botanist and explorer  +
  • For Pedro Cevallos, 1760–1840, Spanish statesman and diplomat  +
  • For Pedro Gregorio Echeandía, 1746–1817, Spanish botanist in Zaragosa  +
  • For Petrus Hotton, 1648–1709, Dutch botanist  +
  • For Philipp Bruch, 1781–1847, German pharmacist and bryologist  +
  • For Pierre Guizot, 1787–1874, French historian, politician  +
  • For Pietro Andrea Matthioli, 1500–1577, Italian artist and botanist  +
  • For Reuben Denton Nevius, 1827 – 1913 clergyman and amateur botanist  +
  • For Rev. John Dalton, 1764 – 1843, British botanist and bryologist  +
  • For Robert Sibbald, 1642–1722, professor of medicine at Edinburgh  +
  • For Roelof van der Wijk, 1895 – 1981, Dutch bryologist  +
  • For Roger Hennedy, 1809–1877, Scottish phycologist  +
  • For Salvador Soliva, an 18th-Century physician to the Spanish court  +
  • For Samuel Botsford Buckley, 1809–1884, American botanist  +
  • For Samuel George Morton, 1799–1851, North American naturalist  +
  • For San Benito County, California, alluding to distribution  +
  • For Sextus Otto Lindberg, 1835 – 1889, Scandinavian br y ologist  +
  • For Sherwin Carlquist, b. 1930, Californian botanist  +
  • For Sir Charles Lyell, 1767–1849  +
  • For Stephen Elliott, 1771–1830, American botanist and banker  +
  • For Stephen Hales, 1677–1761, English botanist  +
  • For Theodore M. Barkley, 1934–2004, North American botanist  +
  • For Thomas Williams Simmonds, d. 1804, English naturalist  +
  • For Toiyabe Mountain Range, Nevada  +
  • For Tom J. Mabry, 1932–2015, American botanist and phytochemist  +
  • For Toussaint Bastard, 1784 – 1846, French botanist  +
  • For Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus, 1849 – 1929, Finnish bryologist  +
  • For Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus, 1849–1929, Finnish bryologist  +
  • For Vincenz Franz Kosteletzky, 1801 – 1887, Czech botanist  +
  • For Virgilio Fallugi, 1627–1707, Italian abbot  +
  • For W. D. J. Koch, 1771–1849, German naturalist and physician  +
  • For William Baldwin, 1779–1819, American botanist  +
  • For William C. Cusick, 1842–1922, Oregon plant collector  +
  • For William Darlington, 1782–1863, Philadelphia botanist  +
  • For William Gambel, 1823–1849, American naturalist  +
  • For William Hudson, 1730 – 1793 English botanist  +
  • For William Russel Dudley, 1849–1911, American botanist  +
  • For William Turner, 1515 – 1568, English botanist  +
  • For William Vernon, d. 1711, English botanist  +
  • For William Watson, 1715–1787, British botanist  +
  • For William Welles Hollister, 1818–1886, California rancher  +
  • For Willis Linn Jepson, 1867–1946, California botanist  +
  • For Zaccheus Collins, 1764–1831, Philadelphia botanist  +
  • For Zenobia, third-century queen of Palmyra, a city-state in Syria  +
  • A mythi-cal hermaphrodite monster, in reference to the original inclusion in Menispermaceae, where it was the only genus with bisexual flowers  +
  • A name mentioned by Dioscorides, presumably for a plant now referable to Senecio or a related genus  +
  • Alluding to imagined resemblance of leaves or fruits to those of a fig, Ficus carica, erroneously thought to be from Caria in southwestern Asia Minor  +
  • Alluding to the Tamaulipan Desert region, to which the species is restricted  +
  • America plus orchis, from the American distribution of this close relative of Eurasian Orchis  +
  • Ancient Greek name for horseradish, or perhaps Celtic ar, near, mor, sea, and rich, against, alluding to habitat  +
  • Ancient Latin name used by Pliny, probably corruption of barbascum, bearded, alluding to dense tomentum, or barbarum, medicinal plaster, alluding to use of some species  +
  • Arabic melóchich, name for Corchorus olitorius Linnaeus, a salad plant in the East  +
  • Arabic name alkemelyeh, perhaps alluding to alchemists' interest in reputed marvelous powers of its dew  +
  • Arabic suaed, black, Arabic name for Suaeda vera Forsskål ex J. F. Gmelin  +
  • Asa, honoring American botanist Asa Gray, 1810–1888, and Greek anthos, flower  +
  • Attributed to Dioscorides, Greek petasos, broad-brimmed hat, alluding to large basal leaves  +
  • Canada and Greek anthos, flower, alluding to mainly Canadian distribution  +
  • Chinese yin, silver, and hing, apricot, in reference to appearance of the seed  +
  • Cited by Dioscorides as Roman name for a species of Catananche Linnaeus (Asteraceae), applied here possibly alluding to similarity  +
  • Classical Greek name, perhaps derived from pálin, again or once more, and oúron or oureó, urine or to make water, alluding to diuretic properties of roots and leaves of P. spina-christi  +
  • Classical Latin for the English oak, Quercus robur, from some central European language  +
  • Classical Latin name, from Greek figos, an oak with edible acorns, probably from Greek fagein, to eat  +
  • Classical Latin, Pliny's name for Celtis australis Linnaeus, the "lotus" of the ancient world  +
  • Classical Latin, from Greek kastanaion karuon, nut from Castania, probably referring either to Kastanaia in Pontus or Castana in Thessaly  +
  • Derivation equivocal, perhaps from misreading of Latin azania, a kind of pine cone, or from Latin zamia, loss, from the "sterile appearance" of the pollen cones  +
  • Derivation obscure, perhaps for Anders Kallström, 1733–1812, a contemporary of Scopoli  +
  • Derivation uncertain, perhaps from Caiapó, river or native tribe of Amazonian Brazil  +
  • Distorted Greek kodon, bell, and phoras, bearing, alluding to capsules with bell-shaped calyptrae  +
  • Evidently from Latin sphagnum, a moss, and cola, dwelling in, perhaps alluding to usually wet habitats  +
  • For Abram P. Garber, 1838–1881, of Columbia, Pennsylvania, noted for his contributions to the flora of Florida  +
  • For Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, 1870–1942, collector and botanist in western North America  +
  • For Adolphe Brongniart, 1801–1876, French botanist and student of Rhamnaceae  +
  • For Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun, 1805 – 1877, Director of the Berlin Botanic Garden  +
  • For Alvaro Reynoso, 1829–1888, Cuban chemist and agriculturalist, who revolutionized the sugar industry  +
  • For Andrew Carnegie, 1835–1919, Scottish-born American philanthropist and patron for systematic studies of cacti  +
  • For Anna Paulowna Romanov, 1795–1865, Grand Duchess of Russia and daughter of Czar Paul I, Hereditary Princess of the Netherlands  +
  • For Antoine Gouan, 1733–1821, French botanist and ichthyologist at Montpellier, director of botanical garden in 1767, later professor of botany and medicine  +
  • For Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, 1747–1827 French botanist and monographer of Fragaria  +
  • For Antoni de Meca-Caçador-Cardona i de Beatrin, 1726–1788, benefactor of Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona  +
  • For Antonio Condal, 1745–1804, Spanish physician who accompanied Peter Loefling on a journey up the Orinoco River  +
  • For Archibald Menzies, 1754–1842, Scottish physician and naturalist with Vancouver Expedition 1790–1795, whobrought the type species from the Northwest Coast  +
  • For Arthur Herman Holmgren, 1912–1992, Noel Herman Holmgren, b. 1937, and Patricia Kern Holmgren, b. 1940, American botanists, and Greek anthos, flower  +
  • For August Fendler, 1813–1883, German-born plant collector in North and South America, early botanical explorer of southwestern United States  +
  • For August Fendler, 1813–1883, botanical collector, and Latin -ella, honor  +
  • For Auguste Henri Cornut de Coincy, 1837–1903, Spanish botanist, discoverer of first species described  +
  • For Auguste Jean Marie Bachelot de la Pylaie, 1786–1856, French bryologist  +
  • For Augustin Friedrich Walther, 1688 – 1746, German physician, anatomist, and botanist at Leipzig University  +
  • For Augustus Gottlieb Oemler, 1773 – 1852 Savannah pharmacist and entomologist  +
  • For Aven Nelson, 1859–1952, American botanist who studied the flora of Wyoming and neighboring states  +
  • For Barclay Hazard, 1852–1938, amateur botanist from Santa Barbara, California  +
  • For Baron W. F. von Karvinsky, 1780–1855, botanical collector in Brazil and Mexico  +
  • For Bartholomaeus Carrichter, sixteenth-century herbalist, alchemist, and physician to Emperor Maximilian II  +
  • For Bassiani Carminati, eighteenth-century Italian author of book on hygiene, therapeutics, and materia medica  +
  • For Benjamin Franklin, 1706–1790, American statesman, diplomat, physicist, man of letters  +
  • For C. F. Lessing, 1809–1862, German-born botanist, his nephew K. F. Lessing, and grandfather G. E. Lessing  +
  • For Carl Wilhelm Krug, 1833–1898, major collaborator with Urban on the West Indian flora, and Greek dendron, tree  +
  • For Carlo Antonio Lodovico Bellardi, 1741–1826, professor of botany at University of Turin  +
  • For Carlo Giuseppe Bertero, 1789–1831, Italian physician and botanist who settled in Chile  +
  • For Carlo Giuseppe, Conte di Firmian, 1717 – 1782 Austrian statesman and Governor-General of Lombardy  +
  • For Charles A. Mosier, 1871–1936, first superintendent of Royal Palm State Park, Florida’s first state park (now Everglades National Park)  +
  • For Charles Deering, frequent sponsor of J. K. Small in his botanical explorations  +
  • For Charles Léo Lesquereux, 1806 – 1889, Swiss-American bryologist and paleontol o gist  +
  • For Christian Cajus Lorenz Hirschfeldt, 1742–1792, Austrian botanist/horticulturist  +
  • For Christian Gottlieb Ludwig, 1709–1773, botanist and physician of Leipzig  +
  • For Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede, 1798–1836, a German naturalist and plant collector in Mexico  +
  • For Christoph Entzelt (Christophorus Enzelius), 1517–1583, German naturalist  +
  • For Clarence Luther Herrick, 1858–1903, geologist and botanical collector in New Mexico, president of University of New Mexico  +
  • For Claude Gay, 1800–1873, French author of Flora of Chile, and Greek phyton, plant  +
  • For Claudius Galenius, a.d. 130–200, Roman physician and writer on medicine  +
  • For Constantin Samuel Rafinesque, 1783–1840, naturalist and polymath who traveled widely in nineteenth-century America  +
  • For Cristóbal Velez, ca. 1710–1753, a friend of the botanist Pehr Loefling  +
  • For D. B. Pascal, French/Italian physician/botanist, once director of royal garden at Parma  +
  • For David Douglas, 1798–1834, Scottish botanist and collector in northwestern North America  +
  • For Domenico Nocca, 1758–1841, Italian clergyman, botanist, director of botanic garden at Pavia  +
  • For Dominico Cirillo, 1739–1799, Italian physician and professor of natural history, University of Naples  +
  • For Edward H. Harriman, 1848–1909, American financier and patron of science  +
  • For Edward Palmer, 1831–1911, American field botanist who collected the type material  +
  • For Edwin Blake Payson, 1893–1927, American botanist and first monographer of Lesquerella  +
  • For Edwin P. James, 1797–1861, American physician and naturalist on the Stephen Harriman Long expeditions of 1819 & 1820  +
  • For Eli Ives, 1779–1861, professor of pediatrics, materia medica, and botany at Yale University  +
  • For Eric Hultén, 1894–1981, Swedish botanist, specialist of the circumpolar flora  +
  • For Ernst Ludwig Heim, 1747–1834, medical doctor in Berlin renowned for establishing sanitary health practices and said to have introduced Alexander von Humboldt to botany  +
  • For Eugenio Montaña y Roldan Otumbensi, who evidently was heroic in a battle on the plains of Apam  +
  • For F. G. J. von Sachs, 1832–1897, German plant physiologist, noted by Grisebach to be “ingeniosi”  +
  • For Ferdinand Ignatius Xavier Rugel, 1806–1878, original collector of the species  +
  • For Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer, 1801–1879, German expatriate, botanist/intellect, settled in Texas  +
  • For Franz Balthasar von Lindern, 1682–1755, French botanist and physician  +
  • For Franz Gabriel de Bray, 1765–1832, French ambassador to Bavaria, head of Regensberg Botanical Society  +
  • For Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, 1759–1823, Austrian soldier and botanist  +
  • For Frederick Hinsdale Horsford, 1855 – 1923, Vermont farmer and commercial seedsman, and probably also for Eben Norton Horsford, 1818 – 1893, chemist  +
  • For Frederick Traugott Pursh, 1774 – 1820, German botanist, student of North American flora  +
  • For Friedrich (later Frederick) Adolph Wislizenus, 1810–1889, botanical collector in southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico  +
  • For Friedrich Benjamin Lütke (later russified to Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke), 1797 – 1882 Russian sea captain and Arctic explorer  +
  • For Frédéric Karl Gochnat, d. 1816, a botanist who worked with Cichorieae  +
  • For Félix Jafuell, 1857–1931, clergyman who collected plants in South America, and Greek bryum, moss  +
  • For G. W. Leibnitz, 1646–1716, philosopher, political advisor, mathematician, and scientist  +
  • For Giovanni Battista Triumfetti, 1658 – 1708, Italian botanist, director of the botanical garden in Rome  +
  • For Gottfried F. Fleischmann, 1777–1850, teacher of Schultz-Bipontinus at Erlangen  +
  • For Greek mythological Astraea (star maiden), daughter of Zeus and Themis  +
  • For Greek mythological daughter of Cepheus and Cassiope, married to Perseus  +
  • For Guy L. Nesom, b. 1945, American botanist, avid researcher of Asteraceae  +
  • For Guy-Crescent Fagon, 1638–1718, French botanist and chemist, physician to Louis XIV  +
  • For Hans von Türckheim, 1853–1920, plant collector in Guatemala and West Indies  +
  • For Henri de Ponthieu, a West Indian merchant who sent plant collections to Sir Joseph Banks in 1778  +
  • For Henry Nicholas Bolander, 1831–1897, physician and collector for California State Geological Survey  +
  • For Henry P. Sartwell, 1792–1867, “one of my earliest and most valued botanical correspondents….” Quoted from protologue.  +
  • For Henry Shoemaker Conard, 1874–1971, bryologist of Grinnell College, Iowa  +
  • For Hermann Conring, 1606–1681, German professor of medicine and philosophy at Helmstedt  +
  • For Ivar T. Tidestrom, 1864–1956, Swedish-born American botanist noted for floras of central and western United States  +
  • For J. A. C. Chaptal, 1756–1831, who invented the wine-making process called chaptalization  +
  • For J. Cl. M. Mordant de Launay, 1750–1816, lawyer, later librarian at Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris  +
  • For Jacob Bigelow, 1787–1879, Massachusetts medical and botanical scholar  +
  • For Jacob Breyne, 1637–1697, and his son Johann Philipp Breyne, 1680–1764, Polish botanists  +
  • For Jacob Christian Schaeffer, 1718–1790, German botanist, zoologist, theologian, and clergyman  +
  • For Jacob Pierre Berthoud van Berchem, eighteenth-century Dutch mineralogist and naturalist  +
  • For Jacob Whitman Bailey, 1811–1857, researcher of diatomaceous algae at the U.S. Military Academy  +
  • For Jacques Daléchamps (or D’Aléchamps), 1513–1588, French surgeon and botanist  +
  • For Jean Nicholas Nicollet, 1786–1843, “…who spent several years in exploring the country watered by the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and who was employed by the United States Government in a survey of the region….” Quoted from protologue.  +
  • For Joachim Christian Timm, 1734–1805, botanist and Burgermeister of Malchin, Mecklenberg  +
  • For Johan Erik Forsström, 1775 – 1824, Swedish pastor and plant collector  +
  • For Johann August Carl Sievers, 1762–1795, German-born apothecary who explored eastern Russia in search of medicinal rhubarb  +
  • For Johann F. G. von Eschscholtz, 1793-1831, Estonian physician and biologist who traveled with Chamisso on the Romanzoff (or Kotzebue) Expedition to the Pacific Coast  +
  • For Johann Friedrich Wolff, 1778–1806, German physician, and Latin ella, diminutive  +
  • For Johann Gottfried Zinn, 1727–1759, professor of botany, Göttingen, known for botanical studies in Mexico  +
  • For Johann Heinrich von Heucher, 1677–1747, Austrian-born medical botanist and professor of medicine at Wittenberg, later Dresden  +
  • For Johann Jakob Roemer, 1763-1819, Swiss physician and naturalist at Zürich  +
  • For Johann Thal, German physician and botanist who lived during the mid 1500s  +
  • For Johann van der Deutz, ca. 1743–1784, Dutch merchant and patron of Carl Peter Thunberg  +
  • For John Adlum, 1759-1836, a horticulturist born in York, Pa., died in Georgetown, D.C.  +
  • For John Bartram, 1699 – 1777, Pennsylvania botanist, horticulturist, and explorer  +
  • For John Bradbury, 1768–1823, English naturalist, collector for the Liverpool Botanic Garden in the Missouri Territory, 1810–1811  +
  • For John Brickell, 1748–1809, Irish-born physician and naturalist who settled in Georgia (not John Brickell, 1710?–1745, Irish naturalist who visited North Carolina ca. 1729–1731 and published on the natural history of North Carolina in 1737)  +
  • For John Charles Frémont, 1813 – 1890, U.S. military explorer and politician, and Greek dendron, tree  +
  • For John Herman Sandberg, 1848–1917, Swedish-born American botanist and physician who collected extensively in the Pacific Northwest  +
  • For John Lyon, 1765–1814, Scottish-born, early American botanist and explorer of southern Appalachians  +
  • For John Prescott (d. 1837), a British botanist resident in Russia who traveled widely in northern Asia  +
  • For John Russell Bartlett, 1805–1886, United States Commissioner of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary Survey  +
  • For John Scouler, 1804–1871, physician, botanical collector, and naturalist  +
  • For Joseph Donat Surian, d. 1691, French physician who collected plants in the West Indies  +
  • For Josephus Monninus (José Moñino y Redondo), eighteenth-century Spanish Count of Florida-Blanca, administrator, and patron of botany  +
  • For José Victorino Lastarria Santander, 1817–1888, lawyer and founder of the Liberal Party in Chile  +
  • For Juan Antonio Pérez Hernández de Larrea, 1730–1803, Catholic bishop of Valladolid, Spain  +
  • For Leonhart Fuchs, 1501–1566, German physician, herbalist, and professor at Tübingen  +
  • For Leopold Loeske, 1865 – 1935, German bryologist and journalist, and Greek bryon, moss  +
  • For Leopold Loeske, 1865–1935, German botanist, and Greek hypnum, lichen or, by usage, pleurocarpous moss  +
  • For Lieutenant Amiel Weeks Whipple, 1816–1863, commander of Pacific Railroad Expedition 1853 & 1854  +
  • For Lloyd Herbert Shinners, 1918–1971, botanist, long at Southern Methodist University, founder of the journal Sida  +
  • For Loran Crittenden Anderson, b. 1936, fervent American enthusiast of Asteraceae, especially Chrysothamnus and related taxa  +
  • For Louis Antoine Prospere Herissant, 1745 – 1769, French physician, naturalist, and poet  +
  • For Louis Piré, 1827 – 1887, Belgian bryologist and father-in-law of Jules Cardot, and Latin - ella, diminutive  +
  • For Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso, 1781–1838, French-born German botanist  +
  • For Luis Blet, a Catalonian apothecary of the eighteenth century who accompanied Ruiz and Pavón on their New World explorations  +
  • For M. Gaillard de Merentonneau (or Charentonneau?), eighteenth-century French patron of botanists  +
  • For Magnus Lagerstroem, 1696–1759, friend of Linnaeus and supporter of Uppsala University  +
  • For Manfredus de Monte Imperiale, fourteenth-century Italian writer on medical simples  +
  • For Mariano Lagasca y Segura, Spanish botanist at the Madrid Botanical Garden  +
  • For Mariano Martínez de Galinsoga, 1766–1797, court physician and director of the Botanic Garden, Madrid  +
  • For Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens, 1794–1867, physiologist, perpetual secretary, Académie des Sciences, Paris  +
  • For Mathias Mielichhofer, 1772 – 1847, Austrian collector of generitype specimen  +
  • For Melines Conkling Leavenworth, 1796–1862, American physician and botanist who collected in the southeastern United States  +
  • For Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, 1812–1881 Irish botanist and British civil servant in Bengal  +
  • For Michel Bégon, 1638 – 1710 French governor of Haiti and patron of botany  +
  • For Michel Sarrazin de l’Etang, 1659–1734, King’s physician in New France, who sent specimens to Europe  +
  • For Moses Marshall, 1758–1813, American botanist, nephew of and assistant to Humphrey Marshall  +
  • For Nathaniel A. Ware, 1789–1853, teacher in South Carolina and plant collector, especially in Florida  +
  • For Nicholas Garry, 1782–1856, deputy-governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1822–1835, diarist of his 1821 travels in the Northwest Territories, friend and benefactor of David Douglas  +
  • For Nicolas Théodore (1767–1845) and Horace Bénédict (1740–1799) de Saussure, Swiss naturalists  +
  • For Olaf Toren, 1718–1753, Swedish clergyman and naturalist with Swedish East India Company  +
  • For Olaus (Olof) Johannes Rudbeck, 1630–1702, and Olaus (Olof) Olai Rudbeck, 1660–1740, father and son, professors at Uppsala University, predecessors of Linnaeus  +
  • For P. C. M. de Pouzolz, botanist and collector in Corsica, France, and the Pyrénées  +
  • For Patrick Neill, 1776 – 1851 Scottish printer, naturalist, and secretary of the Caledonian Horticultural Society  +
  • For Paul Dietrich Giseke, 1741–1796, German professor, botanist, and pupil of Linnaeus  +
  • For Pedro Jaime Esteve (Stevius), d. 1556, noted medical practitioner and botany professor of Valencia, Spain  +
  • For Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras, ca. 1485 – 1541, member of Cortez’s expedition to Mexico  +
  • For Peter J. Bergius, 1730–1790, Swedish botanist and physician, student of Linnaeus  +
  • For Peter Kalm, 1715–1779, Swedish botanist, pupil of Linnaeus, collector in eastern North America  +
  • For Pierre Magnol (1638-1715), professor and director of the botanical garden at Montpellier, France  +
  • For Raymond Carl Jackson, b. 1928, American botanist and plant geneticist  +
  • For René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec, 1781–1826, French physician, inventor of the stethoscope  +
  • For Robert Leslie James, 1897–1977, American botanist and historian, and Greek anthos, flower  +
  • For Robert Teesdale, 1740–1804, British botanist and gardener at Yorkshire  +
  • For Roman god Bacchus, allusion obscure, perhaps used originally for different plant  +
  • For Romulus, one of the mythical founders of Rome, the type species of the genus being common around that city  +
  • For S. Clinton Hastings of San Francisco, supporter of S. Watson et al. (1876–1880) on California botany  +
  • For Saint Barbara, fourth-century, or perhaps alluding to being the only plants available for food on Saint Barbara’s Day (4 December)  +
  • For Samuel Boykin, 1786–1848, planter, physician, and naturalist of Milledgeville, Georgia  +
  • For Samuel Hart Wright, 1825–1905, collector of the specimens from which the genus was described  +
  • For Sequoyah, also known as George Guess, inventor and publisher of the Cherokee alphabet  +
  • For Theodor Herzog, 1880–1961, German botanist, and Latin, - ella, diminutive  +
  • For Thomas Drummond, 1780 – 1835, Scottish botanist who collected extensively on two expeditions to North America  +
  • For Thomas Nuttall, 1786–1859, British naturalist and plant collector, and Greek anthos, flower  +
  • For Thomas Taylor, 1775 – 1848, British bryologist and coauthor of the Muscologia Britannica  +
  • For Timotheus Smielowsky, 1769–1815, Russian botanist and pharmacist from St. Petersburg  +
  • For Townshend Stith Brandegee, 1843 – 1925, California botanist, explorer and collector, civil engineer, topographer  +
  • For Tyge Wittrock Böcher, 1909–1983, Danish cytogeneticist who worked on subarctic flowering plants  +
  • For Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf, 1850–1932, German botanist and collector in the Pacific Northwest  +
  • For William Clifton, vital dates unknown, first attorney general of Georgia (1754–1764), later Chief Justice of West Florida  +
  • For William E. Parry, 1790–1855, arctic explorer during whose first expedition to the North American Arctic (1819–1820) specimens of the genus were first collected  +
  • For William F. Tolmie, 1812–1886, surgeon for Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver  +
  • For William Gollan, 1855–1905, Scottish superintendent of Edinburgh Botanic Garden and collector in Kashmir  +
  • For William H. Harris, 1860–1920, F.L.S., British botanist and prolific collector of Jamaican plants  +
  • For William Hemsley Emory, 1811–1877, commander of Texas-Mexico boundary survey  +
  • For William Jackson Hooker, 1785 – 1865, British botanist and first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew  +
  • For William Kerr, d. 1814 collector in the far east, sponsored by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and superintendent of Botanic Garden, Peradinaya, Sri Lanka  +
  • For William Marbury Carpenter, 1811–1848, Louisiana physician and botanist  +
  • For William Russel Buck, b. 1950, American bryologist, and Latin - ella, diminutive  +
  • For William S. Sullivant, 1803–1873, American bryologist, who collected the type specimen in Ohio  +
  • For William Scrugham Lyon, 1851 – 1916 botanist, nurseryman, plant collector in California and Philippines, and Greek thamnos, bush or shrub  +