CALIFORNIA BOTANIC GARDEN
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Southern honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
Caprifoliaceae

[Named for Adam Lonitzer, 1528-1586]
 
   
Violet twining snapdragon
Maurandella antirrhiniflora
Plantaginaceae

Paperflower
Psilostrophe cooperi
Asteraceae


 
Wild grape
Vitis girdiana
Vitaceae

[Named for Henry Harrison Gird, 1826-1913]
  Poor man's timothy
Iva hayesiana
Asteraceae
[Named for Eli Ives, 1779-1861, and Sutton Hayes, 1827-1863]


 
 
Many-flowered linanthus
Leptosiphon floribundus ssp. floribundus

Polemoniaceae
 
 
 
 
Otay mesa mint
Pogogyne nudiuscula
Lamiaceae

Lindley's blazing star
Mentzelia lindleyi
Loasaceae

[Named for Christian Mentzel, 1622-1701, and John Lindley, 1799-1865]
 
 


   
Mortonia
Mortonia utahensis
Celastraceae

[Named for Samuel George Morton, 1799-1851]
 
Most beautiful jewelflower
Streptanthus glandulosus ssp. glandulosus
Brassicaceae


 
 
Matilija poppy
Romneya coulteri
Papaveraceae

[Named for John Thomas Romney Robinson, 1792-1882, and Thomas Coulter, 1793-1843]
 
 
Silver cholla
Cylindropuntia echinocarpa
Cactaceae

Shaggy-haired alumroot
Heuchera hirsutissima
Saxifragaceae

[Namesd for Johann Heinrich von Heucher, 1677-1747]
Pacific ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus
Rosaceae

Red ribbons
Clarkia concinnus
Onagraceae

[Named for William Clark, 1770-1838]
 


 
Smooth tarplant
Centromadia pungens ssp. laevis
Asteraceae
  Snowdrop bush
Styrax redivivus
Styracaceae


 
California hedge nettle
Stachys bullata
Lamiaceae
 
 
Sonoma clarkia
Clarkia gracilis
Onagraceae
Valley cholla
Cylindropuntia bernardina
Cactaceae

 
 
Twinberry
Lonicera involucrata var. ledebourii
Caprifoliaceae

[Named for Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, 1785-1851]
 


 
Western false-indigo
Amorpha fruticosa
Fabaceae

  Southern Chinese houses
Collinsia concolor
Plantaginaceae


 
Sand buckbrush
Ceanothus cuneatus var. fascicularis
Rhamnaceae
 
 
 
Bushrue
Cneoridium dumosum
Rutaceae


   
Canyon live oak
Quercus chrysolepis
Fagaceae
 
California wax-myrtle
Morella californica
Myrisceae



 
 
Beach sagewort
Artemisia pycnocephalus
Asteraceae
 
 
 
 
California barberry
Berberis pinnata ssp. pinnata
Berberidaceae
California ash
Fraxinus dipetala
Oleaceae
 
 


   
Island ceanothus
Ceanothus arboreus
Rhamnaceae
 
Star lily
Toxicoscordion fremontii
Melanthiaceae



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CALIFORNIA PLANT NAMES: LATIN AND GREEK MEANINGS AND DERIVATIONS
VIRGINIA PLANT NAMES: LATIN AND GREEK MEANINGS AND DERIVATIONS