{"id":3046,"date":"2019-11-14T00:09:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-675\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:25:10","slug":"on-the-origin-of-common-plant-names","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/on-the-origin-of-common-plant-names\/","title":{"rendered":"on the origin of common plant names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can you recommend a book that talks about the origins of the common names of plants, not just their botanical Latin equivalents?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The best book I have found is Geoffrey Grigson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=6300\"><em>A Dictionary of English Plant Names<\/em><\/a>, published by Allen Lane in 1974. It goes into a great deal of detail, and usually provides the approximate date when the name came into use. Another good resource is <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1179\"><em>Flowers and Plants: An International Lexicon with Biographical Notes<\/em><\/a>, by Robert Shosteck (Quadrangle, 1974).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you recommend a book that talks about the origins of the common names of plants, not just their botanical Latin equivalents? &nbsp; The best book I have found is Geoffrey Grigson&#8217;s A Dictionary of English Plant Names, published by Allen Lane in 1974. It goes into a great deal of detail, and usually provides the approximate date when the name came into use. Another good resource is Flowers and Plants: An International Lexicon with Biographical Notes, by Robert Shosteck&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/on-the-origin-of-common-plant-names\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">on the origin of common plant names<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[337,847],"class_list":["post-3046","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-botanical-nomenclature","keyword-common-names"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/3046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}