[pbs] Ambiquous Common name nomination

Hannon othonna at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 21:55:24 EST 2007


As some wise person observed once:
All common names are correct!

(By virtue of the absence of any agreed upon authority...)

On Dec 20, 2007 2:33 PM, Mary Sue Ittner <msittner at mcn.org> wrote:

> My nomination is Bermuda Buttercup, the name used for Oxalis pes-caprae
> which is native to South Africa, not Bermuda. It is yellow it is true, but
> buttercup is a common name often used in connection with some Ranunculus
> species which further illustrates one of the problems of using common
> names
> as more than one genus can go under the same name.
>
> Mary Sue
>
> _______________________________________________
> pbs mailing list
> pbs at lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/pbs
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki
>


More information about the pbs mailing list