> What really annoys me in this regard is the insistence of flower > guide publishers and Native Plant groups on having an English name > for everything, resulting in names that have never actually been used > for the plant by any speaker of any language,
Well, some people feel the need to be creative. Look at the massive amount of brainpower that it took to give Fendlera rupicola the common name of "cliff bush." At some point in time someone decided this was not evocative enough, and it became "cliff fendlerbush". Bob Nold _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
