The scientific names for all these plants weren’t up to the seed companies or plant nurseries to decide. That responsibility fell to the International Botanical Congress which first met in 1864.

The scientific name, especially the species portion, can tell us a variety of things about a plant, like the color of the flowers, the plant’s height, the shape of the foliage, if the plant is ...

All names aside, the Corpse Flower, now 18 years old, is about to bloom for the second time. It was donated to the Denver Botanic Gardens in 2007. You can watch the flower on our webcam here ...

Scientific names may not be easy to pronounce and can be difficult to spell, but if you have the name written down, you will always be able to find information on the plant.

You’ll start to see this flower, scientific name Solidago, bloom in late summer, and it is especially common along Kansas roadsides.. There are nine species of goldenrod that bloom in Kansas ...

You can grow corpse flowers by obtaining seeds or tubers of the several smaller species in the family. Two of the most impressive of these are both named Voodoo lilies.

The scientific name, Soleirolia soleirolii, is also strange. Both the genus and the species epithet refer to a botanist, Joseph-Francois Soleirol, who collected the plant on Corsica.

The rare corpse flower is about to bloom, and you don't have to be a 12-year-old to laugh at its scientific name.

You’ll start to see this flower, scientific name Solidago, bloom in late summer, and it is especially common along Kansas roadsides.. There are nine species of goldenrod that bloom in Kansas ...