White flowers lend an elegant, stately look to an outdoor garden, providing a serene landscape where one can easily relax. Whether you want to create an all-white garden or floral arrangement or ...

Sea anemones took their names in the late 1700s on their likeness to the flowers. In the pastoral poems of Theocritus, Ovid, ...

Noting the large number of religious popular or common plant names recorded, Johannis Bauhin wrote "De Plantis A Divis Sanctisve Nomen Habentibus" ("Plants Which Have Various Holy Names") in Basil in ...

Vast numbers of Latin American plants were given religious names in this way by European missionaries. Notable in this respect is the American plant, Tagetus, now commonly known as Marigold (MaryGold) ...