Gardener Friendly Guide to Greek & Latin Names of Plants

A Gardener-Friendly Guide to Greek & Latin Names of Plants

Method for Lectures & Seminars with Links to Illustrative Matter

John B. Van Sickle

Professor of Classics (Brooklyn College) & Avid Gardener in Bridgehampton

[you may click on links in green (active) or blue (previously clicked) for further text &/or images]

References from previous venues: Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons (8th Annual Karish Seminar);
Master Gardeners of Suffolk County.

METHOD in Brief [click here]
KEY to DECODING NAMES:
How to get help from the Internet & elsewhere [click here]. Plants used in basic analysis of names:

Bleeding Heart

[click on images for larger view]

Dicentra spectablis

Dicentra spectabilis alba

Dicentra eximia

Dicentra cucullaria

[all pictures but this last
by JBVS in Springs]

GETTING IN & GETTING IT:
Tools for Learning & Recall--
Breaking Names into Component Parts [click here for table of Latin & Greek forms]

Sampler of other resources available on the world-wide web: Click here

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E-mail: jvsickle@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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