How Plants Are Named

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How Plants Are Named
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Binomial Naming

• Linnaeus
• developed binomial system for naming plants
• consists of two names

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Linnaeus

• Swedish botonist
• gave all plants 2 Latin names as their scientific
  name

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Scientific Naming

• first name - genus or the plants group name
• second name - species, means kind

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Scientific Naming

• genus name is always capitalized
• species is not
• both are underlined

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Scientific Naming

• Zea maize - corn

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Why use Scientific names

• many plants have more than one common name
• universally understood throughout the world

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Example

• Sansaveria trifasciata
• common names
• Snake Plant
• Mother In Laws Toungue

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Plant families

• related genus with similar flower structures

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Taxonomist

• scientists who identify and classify plants

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International Rules

• International Code of Binomial Botanical
  Nomenclature