Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

When strolling through a garden center or flipping through a plant catalog, you’ll often notice two distinct names on each tag: a common name and a botanical name. While the common name feels friendly ...

Since the mid-1700s, researchers have classified life with scientific names. But some of them have problematic histories and connotations. The botanical community is trying to tackle this issue. Since ...

Plant nomenclature, or the naming of plants, has been around since 1753, and started with a Swedish botanist named Carl Von Linne. Latin names were given at the time as an internationally understood ...

Capping the UN's International Year of Biodiversity, botanists in Britain and the United States on Wednesday unveiled a library of plant names aimed at helping conservationists, drug designers and ...

Are you waiting for your snowdrops to bloom? Or do you prefer to call them Galanthus nivalis? “Nearly every kind of plant has more than one name,” said Julie Janoski, Plant Clinic manager at The ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I enjoyed your article on plant adaptations; it got me thinking about something I recently discovered when looking for a plant called mock orange. There were two — Pittosporum ...

Q: This question may sound strange, but do weeds have "official" names like other plants? Dandelions are about all I can ID. I was trying to search this online for help identifying some other weeds ...

Picking out the perfect baby name is a lot like picking a flower out of a garden or an apple off of a tree. On one hand, “green thumbs’ are looking for that vibrant, aromatic, freshly-bloomed flower ...

"'Must a name mean something?' Alice asked doubtfully. 'Of course it must,' Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: 'My name means the shape I am — and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name ...