Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the study of categorizing and naming organisms, ...

Does life on this planet belong in tidy, static categories? Or is it a dynamic swirl of complexities? That question is at the ...

Reminders that the earth and what it sustains are not merely ‘resources’ to exploit, barter, and conquer. You can travel the ...

Scores of plants mentioned in ancient religious texts also thrive in San Diego’s climate, with its Mediterranean-like weather ...

The giant leopard plant (Farfugium japonicum “Gigantea”) is a beautiful, shade garden species that adds unique foliage and ...

At 4 a.m. she offers blue-flowered chicory because, she tells us, that’s when it opens in midsummer in Uppsala, where the great Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus suggested it could ...

The forward slash is the most ambiguous of punctuation marks. Placed between two words it can mean “or”, “and” or “combined with”. Its appearance here, in the title of a series of essays about our ...

The name of the genus containing all the varieties of Nasturtium, Tropaeolum, refers to Carl Linnaeus’ belief that the flowers look like the trophies of battle. Since Nasturtiums mostly flower ...

Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the study of categorizing and naming organisms, ...

The first ant was discovered in 1758 by the European biologist Carl Linnaeus. It was Linnaeus who invented the naming system for ants that is part of the National Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The ...