I’m trying to imagine what it would be like going through life not knowing the names of the plants and animals around you,” ...

Swedish physician, botanist and zoologist Carl von Linné is today famous as the father of binomial nomenclature, a system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts ...

Last year, in an issue of our monthly newsletter for Yakima Master Gardeners, Jenny Mansfield recounted a stroll through her winter garden on the way to refilling the bird feeders. She noted that Lamb ...

Rudbeckia hirta. Solanum lycopersicum. 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 ...

Crammed between the Irish potato famine and the front end of the industrial revolution came an event of equal — no, greater — historical significance: the naming of Cannabis sativa by Swedish Botanist ...

ZOOLOGISTS and botanists universally adopt what is termed the binomial system of nomenclature invented by Linnæus. The essential principle of this system is, that every species of animal or plant is ...