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Thursday, April 05, 2001

20010405 The Meaning of Latin Plant Names

The Meanings of Latin Names

April 5th, 2001

Agriculture Nursery Stock and Landscaping Plant Selection

See also: Agriculture Nursery Stock and Landscaping Plant Diseases

http://www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/meanings.htm

Kevin's note: I got this recently from Jimmy Slater over in the Carroll County Office Building. If you go to the above Internet address and click on any of the Plants' names, a wonderful description and picture will come up. Or even better yet - Bring this document up and then go on line and click on any of the plants' names and the description will come up…Whatever. What fun! Please enjoy. Green side up! 04/05/2001 Kevin Dayhoff

Please note - in many cases these are best guesses. This is not meant to be definitive, but should be used as a learning aid. This list has been compiled from a number of sources, which are listed at the bottom. Clicking on the linked name will open the fact sheet for that species in a new window.

Abelia x grandiflora - glossy abelia After Dr. Clark Abel who introduced Abelia chinensis / large-flowered

Abies amabilis - Pacific silver fir Classical name - rising or tall tree, name for the European fir / Latin "amare" (beautiful or lovely, to love)

Abies balsamea - balsam fir Classical name - rising or tall tree, name for the European fir / balsam-producing

Abies concolor - white fir Classical name - rising or tall tree, name for the European fir / one color (both needle surfaces)

Abies fraseri - Fraser fir Classical name - rising or tall tree, name for the European fir / after John Fraser

Abies grandis - grand fir Classical name - rising or tall tree, name for the European fir / large

Abies lasiocarpa - subalpine fir Classical name - rising or tall tree, name for the European fir / rough fruit (cones)

Abies magnifica - California red fir Classical name - rising or tall tree, name for the European fir / magnificent

Abies procera - noble fir Classical name - rising or tall tree, name for the European fir / tall

Acer barbatum - Florida maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / barbed or bearded

Acer buergeranum - trident maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / unknown

Acer campestre - hedge maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / of fields

Acer circinatum - vine maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / rounded leaves

Acer ginnala - Amur maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / native name

Acer glabrum - Rocky Mountain maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / lacking hair

Acer griseum - paperbark maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / gray lower leaf surface

Acer macrophyllum - bigleaf maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / large leaves

Acer negundo - boxelder Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / Latinized form of Malayan name - leaves resemble genus Negundo (Sapindaceae)

Acer nigrum - black maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / black

Acer palmatum - Japanese maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / hand-like

Acer pensylvanicum - striped maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / of Pennsylvania

Acer platanoides - Norway maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / like Platanus

Acer pseudoplatanus - sycamore maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / false Platanus

Acer rubrum - red maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / red

Acer saccharinum - silver maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / sugary sap - Greek "sakcharon" (sweet or sugar)

Acer saccharum - sugar maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / name for sugar cane - Greek "sakcharon" (sweet or sugar)

Acer spicatum - mountain maple Latin name - sharp (leaves or used as lances) or Celtic "ac" (hard) / Latin "spica" (a spike) - a spike of flowers

Aesculus californica - California buckeye Latin for an oak with edible acorns (caution - many are poisonous) / of California

Aesculus glabra - Ohio buckeye Latin for an oak with edible acorns (caution - many are poisonous) / glabrous (lacking hair)

Aesculus hippocastanum - horsechestnut Latin for an oak with edible acorns (caution - many are poisonous) / Latin name from Greek "hippos" (horse) and "kastanon" chestnut

Aesculus octandra - yellow buckeye Latin for an oak with edible acorns (caution - many are poisonous) / eight-stamened

Aesculus parviflora - bottlebrush buckeye Latin for an oak with edible acorns (caution - many are poisonous) / small flowered

Aesculus pavia - red buckeye Latin for an oak with edible acorns (caution - many are poisonous) / After Peter Paaw (Petrus Pavius), Dutch botanist

Aesculus sylvatica - painted buckeye Latin for an oak with edible acorns (caution - many are poisonous) / of the woods - Latin "silva" (forest)

Ailanthus altissima - tree of Heaven Indonesian-Mollucan name "ailanto" for Ailanthus moluccana - reaching to Heaven / tallest Latin "altus" (high)

Albizia julibrissin - mimosa After del Albizzi / the native name

Alnus glutinosa - European black alder Latin name for alder / sticky (buds)

Alnus rhombifolia - white alder Latin name for alder / leaves shaped like a rhombus

Alnus rubra - red alder Latin name for alder / red

Alnus rugosa - speckled alder Latin name for alder / rough

Alnus serrulata - hazel alder Latin name for alder / finely serrate

Alnus sinuata - Sitka alder Latin name for alder / wavy

Amelanchier alnifolia - Pacific serviceberry French name for Amelanchier ovalis / alder-like leaves

Amelanchier arborea - downy serviceberry French name for Amelanchier ovalis / tree-like

Annona glabra - pond apple native Indian name / glabrous (lacking hair)

Aralia spinosa - Devil's walking stick French Canadian "aralei" / bearing spines

Arbutus menziesii - Pacific madrone The Latin name / after naturalist Archibald Menzies

Arctostaphylos columbiana - hairy manzanita Greek "arctos" (a bear) and "staphyle" (a bunch of grapes) / of the Columbia region

Arctostaphylos patula - green manzanita Greek "arctos" (a bear) and "staphyle" (a bunch of grapes) / Latin wide-spreading (reference to form or leaves)

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi - kinnikinick Greek "arctos" (a bear) and "staphyle" (a bunch of grapes) / bear's grape

Arctostaphylos viscida - whiteleaf manzanita Greek "arctos" (a bear) and "staphyle" (a bunch of grapes) / Latin "viscum" (thick, syrupy or sticky - flowers have sticky stems)

Aristolochia durior - Dutchman's pipe Greek "aristos" (best) and "lochia" (childbirth) - medicinal / tough or lasting

Aronia arbutifolia - chokeberry Greek "aria" (Sorbus aria) / arbutus-leaved

Artemisia tridentata - big sagebrush After the Greek goddess Artemis / leaves with three teeth

Asimina parviflora - dwarf pawpaw native Indian name (assimin) / small flower

Asimina triloba - pawpaw native Indian name (assimin) / 3-lobed calyx

Avicennia germinans - black mangrove perhaps from Latin "avi" (bird) and Greek "cen" (common) / Latin "germinare" (to sprout forth)

Berberis aquifolium - tall Oregon-grape Arabic name / holly-like leaf

Berberis nervosa - dwarf Oregon-grape Arabic name / veined or nerved (leaves)

Berberis thunbergii - Japanese barberry Arabic name / after Thunberg

Berchemia scandens - supplejack perhaps from Greek "Bero" (an ocean nymph) and "chem" (juice or pour) / climbing

Betula alleghaniensis - yellow birch Latin (pitch - bitumen is distilled from the bark or Sanskrit "bhurja" (to shine" (bark))) / of the Alleghany region

Betula lenta - sweet birch Latin (pitch - bitumen is distilled from the bark or Sanskrit "bhurja" (to shine" (bark))) / tough but pliable (twigs or ability to grow in rocky areas)

Betula nigra - river birch Latin (pitch - bitumen is distilled from the bark or Sanskrit "bhurja" (to shine" (bark))) / black (bark)

Betula papyrifera - paper birch Latin (pitch - bitumen is distilled from the bark or Sanskrit "bhurja" (to shine" (bark))) / paper bearing - Egyptian for reed - Greek "papyros" (paper) and Latin "ferre" (to bear)

Betula pendula - European white birch Latin (pitch - bitumen is distilled from the bark or Sanskrit "bhurja" (to shine" (bark))) / pendulous

Betula populifolia - gray birch Latin (pitch - bitumen is distilled from the bark or Sanskrit "bhurja" (to shine" (bark))) / poplar-leaved

Betula uber - roundleaf birch Latin (pitch - bitumen is distilled from the bark or Sanskrit "bhurja" (to shine" (bark))) / fertile or rich, probably in reference to site requirements

Broussonetia papyrifera - paper mulberry After Broussonet, French naturalist / paper-bearing (bark) - Egyptian for reed - Greek "papyros" (paper) and Latin "ferre" (to bear)

Buddleia davidii - butterfly bush After Adam Buddle / After Armand David

Bursera simarouba - gumbo-limbo Latin "burs" (a purse) / perhaps an indication of the resemblance to simaroubaceae

Buxus sempervirens - boxwood Latin name for Buxus sempervirens / evergreen - Latin "semper" (always) and "vivere" (live)

Callicarpa americana - American beautyberry Greek "kallos" (beautiful) "carpa" (fruit) / of America

Callistemon spp. - bottlebrush tree Greek "kallos" (beautiful) and "stemon" (stamen)

Calocedrus decurrens - incense-cedar Greek "kallos" (beautiful) and Cedrus / with the leaf stem running gradually into the stem

Calycanthus floridus - common sweetshrub Greek "kalyx" (calyx) and "anthos" (a flower) referring to similar sepals and petals / flowering

Campsis radicans - trumpet creeper Greek "kampe" (something bent) refers to curved stamens / with rooting stems

Carpinus caroliniana - hornbeam Latin name of European hornbeam/ of Carolina

Carya aquatica - water hickory Greek "karya or kaura" (walnut -Juglans regia) / of water

Carya cordiformis - bitternut hickory Greek "karya or kaura" (walnut -Juglans regia) / heart-shaped (fruit) Latin "cordis" (heart) and "forma" (shaped)

Carya glabra - pignut hickory Greek "karya or kaura" (walnut -Juglans regia) / glabrous (lacking hair)

Carya illinoensis - pecan Greek "karya or kaura" (walnut -Juglans regia) / of Illinois

Carya laciniosa - shellbark hickory Greek "karya or kaura" (walnut -Juglans regia) / Latin "lacinia" (shred - the bark)

Carya ovata - shagbark hickory Greek "karya or kaura" (walnut -Juglans regia) / ovate or egg-shaped (leaflets)

Carya pallida - sand hickory Greek "karya or kaura" (walnut -Juglans regia) / pallid (pale)

Carya tomentosa - mockernut hickory Greek "karya or kaura" (walnut -Juglans regia) / hairy

Castanea dentata - American chestnut After Castanea in northern Greece, Greek "kastanea" (chestnut) / refers to big teeth on leaves

Castanea mollissima - Chinese chestnut After Castanea in northern Greece, Greek "kastanea" (chestnut) / very soft-hairy

Castanea pumila - Alleghany chinkapin After Castanea in northern Greece, Greek "kastanea" (chestnut) / dwarf or small

Castanopsis chrysophylla - golden chinkapin Like Castanea, Greek "kastanea" (chestnut) / Greek "chrysos" (golden) and "phyllon" leaf

Casuarina equisetifolia - Australian pine Malayan "casuar" (a cassowary) / Latin "equi" horse and "folium" (leaf)

Catalpa speciosa - Northern catalpa Cherokee name / Latin "species" (form) and "osus" (full of) - showy

Ceanothus americanus - New Jersey tea Greek name of a spiny shrub / american

Ceanothus cuneatus - narrowleaf buckbrush Greek name of a spiny shrub / wedge-shaped (leaf tips)

Ceanothus integerrimus - deerbrush Greek name of a spiny shrub / entire or uninjured - leaves are entire

Ceanothus prostratus - mahala mat Greek name of a spiny shrub / prostrate

Ceanothus sanguineus - redstem ceanothus Greek name of a spiny shrub / blood red

Ceanothus thyrsiflorus - blueblossom Greek name of a spiny shrub / flowers in a thyrse

Ceanothus velutinus - snowbrush Greek name of a spiny shrub / velvety

Cedrus atlantica - Atlas cedar Latin name / of the Atlas Mountains

Cedrus deodara - deodar cedar Latin name / Northern Indian name

Celastrus spp. - bittersweet Greek "kelastros" the name for an evergreen tree

Celtis laevigata - sugarberry Greek name or name applied to African lotus / Latin "laevigat" (smooth or slippery) - the bark

Celtis occidentalis - hackberry Greek name or name applied to African lotus / western - Latin "occidere" (to set, as the sun)

Cephalanthus occidentalis - buttonbush "Head of anthers" / western - Latin "occidere" (to set, as the sun)

Cercidiphyllum japonicum - katsuratree From Cercis and Greek "phyllon" (leaf) / of Japan

Cercis canadensis - Eastern redbud Greek "kerkis" (a shuttle - fruit resembled instrument) / of eastern North America

Cercis occidentalis - Western redbud Greek "kerkis" (a shuttle - fruit resembled instrument) / western - Latin "occidere" (to set, as the sun)

Cercocarpus betuloides - birchleaf mountain-mahogany "kerkis" (a shuttle) and "karpon" (fruit) / birch-like (leaves)

Cercocarpus ledifolius - curlleaf mountain-mahogany "kerkis" (a shuttle) and "karpon" (fruit) / Ledum (labrador tea)-like leaves

Chaenomeles speciosa - common floweringquince Greek "chaina" (to gape) and "melon" (apple) / showy

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana - Port-Orford-cedar Greek "chamai" (low growing) and "kuparissos" (cypress) / after Charles Lawson British nurseryman

Chamaecyparis nootkatensis - Alaska yellow-cedar Greek "chamai" (low growing) and "kuparissos" (cypress) / of Nootka Sound

Chamaecyparis obtusa - Hinoki falsecypress Greek "chamai" (low growing) and "kuparissos" (cypress) / blunt leaves

Chamaecyparis pisifera - Sawara-cedar Greek "chamai" (low growing) and "kuparissos" (cypress) / pea-bearing (referring to the small cones)

Chamaecyparis thyoides - Atlantic white-cedar Greek "chamai" (low growing) and "kuparissos" (cypress) / like Thuja

Chimaphila maculata - striped pipsissewa Strange leaf / spotted

Chionanthus virginicus - fringetree Greek "chion" (snow) and "anthus" (flower) / of Virginia

Chrysothamnus nauseosus - gray rabbitbrush Latin "chryso" (golden) flowered / nausea

Cladrastis kentukea - yellowwood Greek "kladros" (branch) and "thraustos or thrastos" (fragile) for fragile branches / from Kentucky

Clethra alnifolia - summersweet clethra Greek "klethra" (alder) / alnus-leaved

Coccoloba uvifera - seagrape Latin "coccum" (a berry) / grape

Cornus alternifolia - alternate-leaf dogwood The Latin name for Cornus mas from "cornu" (hard - for the wood) / alternate leaves

Cornus amomum - silky dogwood The Latin name for Cornus mas from "cornu" (hard - for the wood) / purifying - Greek name of a spice plant

Cornus canadensis - bunchberry The Latin name for Cornus mas from "cornu" (hard - for the wood) / of Canada

Cornus florida - flowering dogwood The Latin name for Cornus mas from "cornu" (hard - for the wood) / flowering Latin "flos" (flower)

Cornus kousa - kousa dogwood The Latin name for Cornus mas from "cornu" (hard - for the wood) / Japanese name

Cornus mas - Cornelian cherry dogwood The Latin name for Cornus mas from "cornu" (hard - for the wood) / masculine, robust, non-delicate

Cornus nuttallii - Pacific dogwood The Latin name for Cornus mas from "cornu" (hard - for the wood) / after Thomas Nuttall

Cornus sericea (stolonifera) - red-osier dogwood The Latin name for Cornus mas from "cornu" (hard - for the wood) / Latin "serus" (late or tardy) (stolonifera means "bearing stolons")

Corylus americana - American hazel Latin name / of America

Corylus cornuta - beaked hazel Latin name / horned, refers to bracts forming a beak at the apex of the nut

Cotinus obovatus - American smoketree Greek name for olive / obovate leaves

Crataegus spp. - hawthorn Greek "kratos" (strength - for the wood)

Cryptomeria japonica - Japanese cryptomeria Greek "krypto" (to hide) and "meris" (part), referring to concealed flower parts / of Japan

Cunninghamia lanceolata - Chinafir After James Cunningham / lanceolate (leaves)

Cyrilla racemiflora - swamp cyrilla perhaps a reference to Cyril or Greek "cyri" (master of) / flowers in racemes

Cytisus scoparius - Scotch broom Greek name "kytisus" / broom-like

Diervilla lonicera - northern bush-honeysuckle After Dr. Dierville, French surgeon who introduced the plant / from Lonicera

Diospyros virginiana - persimmon Greek "dios" (divine) and "pyros" (wheat) referring to the edible fruit / of Virginia

Elaeagnus angustifolia - Russian-olive The name originally applied to a willow Greek "helodes" (growing in marshes) and "hagnos" (pure) referring to white fruit / narrow-leaved

Elaeagnus umbellata - autumn-olive The name originally applied to a willow Greek "helodes" (growing in marshes) and "hagnos" (pure) referring to white fruit / flowers in umbel-like clusters

Euonymus alatus - winged euonymus Latin name / winged

Euonymus americanus - strawberry bush Latin name / American

Euonymus atropurpureus - Eastern wahoo Latin name / dark purple

Fagus grandifolia - American beech Latin name from Greek "phagein" (to eat - edible nuts) / grand foliage

Fagus sylvatica - European beech Latin name from Greek "phagein" (to eat - edible nuts) / of the woods - Latin "silva" (forest)

Ficus aurea - strangler fig Latin name for Ficus carica / golden, beautiful or splendid

Forsythia spp. - forsythia After William Forsyth, Scottish gardener

Franklinia alatamaha - Franklin tree After Benjamin Franklin / of the Altamaha River in Georgia

Fraxinus americana - white ash The Latin name / of America

Fraxinus caroliniana - Carolina ash The Latin name / of Carolina

Fraxinus latifolia - Oregon ash The Latin name / broad-leaved

Fraxinus nigra - black ash The Latin name / black

Fraxinus pennsylvanica - green ash The Latin name / of Pennsylvania

Fraxinus profunda - pumpkin ash The Latin name / deep or profound

Fraxinus quadrangulata - blue ash The Latin name / four-angled

Gaultheria procumbens - teaberry after Gaulthier, Canadian botanist / prostrate

Gaultheria shallon - salal after Gaulthier, Canadian botanist / Indian name

Gelsemium sempervirens - false jessamine Italian "gelsomino" (jasmine) / evergreen - Latin "semper" (always) and "vivere" (live)

Ginkgo biloba - ginkgo Japanese "ginkyo" (silver apricot) and Chinese ngin-ghang / two-lobed (leaves)

Gleditsia aquatica - waterlocust After Gottlieb Gleditsch, German botanist / water

Gleditsia triacanthos - honeylocust After Gottlieb Gleditsch, German botanist / Greek "treis" (three) and "akantha" (spine)

Gordonia lasianthus - loblolly bay After nurseryman James Gordon / rough anthers

Gymnocladus dioicus - Kentucky coffetree Greek "gymnos" (naked) and "klados" (a branch) referring to leaves that grow following stem growth in spring / dioecious (two houses)

Halesia carolina - Carolina silverbell After English scientist Stephen Hales / of Carolina

Hamamelis virginiana - witch-hazel Greek name for a tree with pear-shaped fruits (the medlar) / of Virginia

Hedera helix - English ivy Latin name / "winding around", referring to staff carried by Baccharus

Hibiscus syriacus - rose-of-sharon Greek name for mallow / of Syria

Holodiscus discolor - ocean spray Greek "holos" (entire) and "diskos" (disk), referring to unlobed discs / two-colored (leaves green and gray)

Hydrangea anomala - climbing hydrangea Greek "hydor" (water) and ""aggos" (jar) for cupped fruits / irregular, deviating from the norm - this hydrangea is a vine

Hydrangea arborescens - wild hydrangea Greek "hydor" (water) and ""aggos" (jar) for cupped fruits / tree-like

Hydrangea macrophylla - bigleaf hydrangea Greek "hydor" (water) and ""aggos" (jar) for cupped fruits / big leaves

Hydrangea paniculata - panicle hydrangea Greek "hydor" (water) and ""aggos" (jar) for cupped fruits / flowers in panicles

Hydrangea quercifolia - oakleaf hydrangea Greek "hydor" (water) and ""aggos" (jar) for cupped fruits / leaves oak-like

Hypericum spp. - Saint Johnswort Greek "hyper" (above) and "eikon" (picture) - it was hung above pictures to ward off evil spirits

Ilex cassine - dahoon from Latin name for Quercus ilex (holly oak) / Latin "casso" to destroy or Latin "cassi" (a helmet)

Ilex coriacea - large gallberry from Latin name for Quercus ilex (holly oak) / leathery (leaves)

Ilex cornuta - Chinese holly from Latin name for Quercus ilex (holly oak) / horned (leaf spines)

Ilex crenata - Japanese holly from Latin name for Quercus ilex (holly oak) / with shallow rounded teeth

Ilex decidua - deciduous holly from Latin name for Quercus ilex (holly oak) / deciduous Latin "de" (down) and "cadere" (to fall)

Ilex glabra - inkberry from Latin name for Quercus ilex (holly oak) / glabrous (lacking hair)

Ilex opaca - American holly from Latin name for Quercus ilex (holly oak) / not glossy, shady, opaque

Ilex verticillata - winterberry holly from Latin name for Quercus ilex (holly oak) / in circles around the stem, probably in reference to the lenticels

Ilex vomitoria - yaupon from Latin name for Quercus ilex (holly oak) / inducing vomiting

Ilex x attenuata - Foster's holly from Latin name for Quercus ilex (holly oak) / to make thin

Itea virginica - sweetspire Greek name for willow / of Virginia

Juglans cinerea - butternut Latin name for Juglans regia Latin "jovis" (Jupiter) and "glans" (nut) / ashy gray (bark)

Juglans nigra - walnut Latin name for Juglans regia Latin "jovis" (Jupiter) and "glans" (nut) / black (bark)

Juniperus chinensis - Chinese juniper Latin name from "junio" (young) and "parere" (to produce) - evergreen / of China

Juniperus communis - common juniper Latin name from "junio" (young) and "parere" (to produce) - evergreen / common

Juniperus conferta - shore juniper Latin name from "junio" (young) and "parere" (to produce) - evergreen / crowded (leaves)

Juniperus horizontalis - creeping juniper Latin name from "junio" (young) and "parere" (to produce) - evergreen / horizontal (habit)

Juniperus occidentalis - western juniper Latin name from "junio" (young) and "parere" (to produce) - evergreen / western - Latin "occidere" (to set, as the sun)

Juniperus procumbens - Ibuki juniper Latin name from "junio" (young) and "parere" (to produce) - evergreen / prostrate

Juniperus scopulorum - Rocky Mountain juniper Latin name from "junio" (young) and "parere" (to produce) - evergreen / growing on cliffs

Juniperus virginiana - eastern redcedar Latin name from "junio" (young) and "parere" (to produce) - evergreen / of Virginia

Kalmia angustifolia - sheep laurel After Pehr Kalm, student of Linnaeus / narrow-leaved

Kalmia latifolia - mountain laurel After Pehr Kalm, student of Linnaeus / broad-leaved

Koelreuteria paniculata - goldenraintree After German botanist Joseph Koelreuter / flowers in panicles

Kolkwitzia amabilis - beautybush After Richard Kolkwitz, German botanist / beautiful

Laburnum x watereri - goldenchain tree Latin name / after the Waterer nursery that introduced this cross

Lagerstroemia indica - crapemyrtle After Magnus von Lagerstrom, friend of Linneus / Indian

Laguncularia racemosa - white mangrove Latin "laguncula" (little bottle) / flowers in racemes

Larix decidua - European larch Latin name / deciduous Latin "de" (down) and "cadere" (to fall)

Larix kaempferi - Japanese larch Latin name / After Engelbert Kaempfer, German botanist

Larix laricina - tamarack Latin name / pertaining to larch

Larix occidentalis - western larch Latin name / western - Latin "occidere" (to set, as the sun)

Leucothoe axillaris - coast leucothoe From Greek mythology Leucothoe was changed into a shrub by her lover, Apollo / refers to flowers in leaf axils

Leucothoe racemosa - swamp sweetbells From Greek mythology Leucothoe was changed into a shrub by her lover, Apollo / refers to flowers in racemes

Ligustrum spp. - privet The Latin name

Lindera benzoin - spicebush After Johann Linder, Swedish botanist / Arabic name - resinous balsams

Liquidambar styraciflua - sweetgum Latin "liquidus" (liquid) and "ambar" (amber), referring to resin containing storax / flowing with styrax (an aromatic balsam)

Liriodendron tulipifera - yellow-poplar Greek "leiron" (lily) and "dendron" (tree) / tulip-bearing

Lithocarpus densiflorus - tanoak Greek "lithos" (stone) and "karpos" (fruit) for its hard fruit / densely flowered

Lonicera involucrata - black twinberry After Adam Lonitzer, German naturalist / with an involucre

Lonicera japonica - Japanese honeysuckle After Adam Lonitzer, German naturalist / of Japan

Lonicera maackii - Amur honeysuckle After Adam Lonitzer, German naturalist / unknown - a surname

Lonicera morrowii - Morrow honeysuckle After Adam Lonitzer, German naturalist / unknown - a surname

Lyonia lucida - fetterbush lyonia After John Lyon, Scottish gardener / bright, shining or clear - leaves are shiny

Maclura pomifera - osage-orange After geologist William Maclure / "pommum" (apple) and "ferre" (to bear) - apple-bearing

Magnolia acuminata - cucumbertree After Pierre Magnol, French botanist / long pointed leaf tip

Magnolia fraseri - Fraser magnolia After Pierre Magnol, French botanist / after John Fraser

Magnolia grandiflora - southern magnolia After Pierre Magnol, French botanist / large flowering

Magnolia kobus var. stellata - star magnolia After Pierre Magnol, French botanist / Japanese name "kobushi"

Magnolia macrophylla - bigleaf magnolia After Pierre Magnol, French botanist / big leaves

Magnolia tripetala - umbrella magnolia After Pierre Magnol, French botanist / three petals

Magnolia virginiana - sweetbay magnolia After Pierre Magnol, French botanist / of Virginia

Magnolia x soulangiana - saucer magnolia After Pierre Magnol, French botanist / After Etienne Soulange-Bodin, French horticulturalist

Malus spp. - apple Latin name for apple, Greek "melon"

Melia azederach - Chinaberry Greek name for ash (similar leaves) / Native name

Metasequoia glyptostroboides - dawn redwood Greek "meta" (changed) and sequoia (a relative) / glypto (carved) and stroboides (overlapping scales)

Mitchella repens - partridgeberry After botanist John Mitchell / creeping

Morus rubra - red mulberry Latin name for Morus nigra from Greek "morea" (mulberry tree) / red

Myrica californica - Pacific waxmyrtle Greek "myrike" (Tamarix) / of California

Myrica cerifera - waxmyrtle Greek "myrike" (Tamarix) / wax-bearing

Myrica gale - sweetgale Greek "myrike" (Tamarix) / old English "gagel"

Nandina domestica - Heavenly bamboo Japanese name "nanten" / cultivated

Nyssa aquatica - water tupelo Greek "Nysa" - a water nymph / of water

Nyssa biflora - swamp tupelo Greek "Nysa" - a water nymph / two-flowered

Nyssa sylvatica - blackgum Greek "Nysa" - a water nymph / of the woods - Latin "silva" (forest)

Oemleria cerasiformis - Indian plum Greek "oem" (a pathway) / cherry bearing

Oplopanax horridum - devilsclub Latin "opus" (beneficial) and "panax" (a plant that heals all diseases - natives used the plants to cure many ailments) / frightful, rough, bristly, horrible

Ostrya virginiana - hophornbeam Greek "ostrya or ostrua" (a tree with hard wood) / of Virginia

Oxydendrum arboreum - sourwood Greek "oxys" (acid) and "dendron" (tree) - refers to acid-tasting leaves / tree-like

Parthenocissus quinquefolia - Virginia creeper Greek "parthenos" (a virgin) and "kissos" (ivy) / five leaflets

Parthenocissus tricuspidata - Boston ivy Greek "parthenos" (a virgin) and "kissos" (ivy) / three-pointed (leaves)

Paulownia tomentosa - royal paulownia After Princess Paulowna of Russia / hairy (leaves)

Persea borbonia - redbay Greek name of a tree / Greek "bor" (food) and Latin "bon" (good) - allusion to bay leaves

Phellodendron amurense - Amur corktree Greek "phellos" (cork) and "dendron" (tree) / of Amur

Philadelphus coronarius - mock-orange The Greek name / used in garlands

Philadelphus lewisii - mockorange The Greek name / unknown - a surname?

Photinia x fraseri - red tips Greek "photos" (light), referring to shiny leaves / After Fraser nurseries

Physocarpus capitatus - ninebark Greek "physa" (bladder) and "karpon" (fruit) / having or forming a head

Picea abies - Norway spruce Latin "pix" (pitch-producing) from Greek "pissa" (pitch) / fir (needles flattened like a fir)

Picea breweriana - Brewer spruce Latin "pix" (pitch-producing) from Greek "pissa" (pitch) / after William Brewer, American botanist

Picea engelmannii - Engelmann spruce Latin "pix" (pitch-producing) from Greek "pissa" (pitch) / after Engelmann

Picea glauca - white spruce Latin "pix" (pitch-producing) from Greek "pissa" (pitch) / waxy whitish bloom

Picea mariana - black spruce Latin "pix" (pitch-producing) from Greek "pissa" (pitch) / of Maryland

Picea pungens - blue spruce Latin "pix" (pitch-producing) from Greek "pissa" (pitch) / sharp (leaves) - Latin "pungere" (to prick)

Picea rubens - red spruce Latin "pix" (pitch-producing) from Greek "pissa" (pitch) / blushed with red (buds and bark) - Latin "rubere" (red)

Picea sitchensis - Sitka spruce Latin "pix" (pitch-producing) from Greek "pissa" (pitch) / of Sitka, Alaska

Pieris japonica - Japanese pieris From Pierides, a name of the Muses / flowering profusely

Pinus albicaulis - whitebark pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / white-stemmed

Pinus aristata - bristlecone pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / bristle, thorn, awned (armed cone) Latin "arista" (bristle)

Pinus attenuata - knobcone pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / drawn-out (cones)

Pinus banksiana - jack pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / After botanist Joseph Banks

Pinus bungeana - lacebark pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / After Alexander von Bunge, Russian botanist

Pinus clausa - sand pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / Latin "clausus" (shut - cones remain closed)

Pinus contorta - lodgepole pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / twisted Latin "torque" (to twist)

Pinus coulteri - Coulter pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / after Thomas Coulter

Pinus densiflora - Japanese red pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / densely flowered

Pinus echinata - shortleaf pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / Greek "echinos" (a hedgehog, prickly - a reference to the cone scales)

Pinus edulis - pinyon pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / edible (seeds)

Pinus elliottii - slash pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / After Elliott

Pinus flexilis - limber pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / flexible

Pinus glabra - spruce pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / glabrous (lacking hair)

Pinus jeffreyi - Jeffrey pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / After John Jeffrey

Pinus lambertiana - sugar pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / After Aylmer Lambert

Pinus monticola - western white pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / growing on mountains

Pinus mugo - Mugo pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / Tyrolese name

Pinus nigra - Austrian pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / black

Pinus palustris - longleaf pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / of swamps - Latin "palus" (swamp)

Pinus parviflora - Japanese white pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / small-flowered

Pinus ponderosa - ponderosa pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / ponderous or heavy (wood) - Latin "pondus" (weight)

Pinus pungens - table mountain pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / sharp (cones) - Latin "pungere" (to prick)

Pinus radiata - Monterey pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / Latin "radi" (a spoke or ray) or "radian" (shining)

Pinus resinosa - red pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / resinous

Pinus rigida - pitch pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / rigid (leaves)

Pinus sabiniana - digger pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / after Sabine

Pinus serotina - pond pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / Latin "serus" (late) - cones are slow to open

Pinus strobus - eastern white pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / incense-bearing or a gum-yielding tree (pitchy) or Greek "strobus" (cone)

Pinus sylvestris - Scotch pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / of the woods - Latin "silva" (forest)

Pinus taeda - loblolly pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / a torch of pine wood - resinous

Pinus thunbergii - Japanese black pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / After Thunberg

Pinus torreyana - Torrey pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / unknown - a surname?

Pinus virginiana - Virginia pine Latin name for pine from Greek "pitus" / of Virginia

Planera aquatica - water elm Latin "plan" (flat or level) or Greek "plane" (a wanderer) / of water

Platanus occidentalis - American sycamore Greek "platanos" (broad or flat) / western - Latin "occidere" (to set, as the sun)

Platanus racemosa - California sycamore Greek "platanos" (broad or flat) / racemes

Platanus x acerifolia - London plane tree Greek "platanos" (broad or flat) / maple-like (leaves)

Poncirus trifoliata - trifoliate orange French name of a citron / three leaflets

Populus alba - European white poplar Latin name / white

Populus balsamifera - balsam poplar Latin name / balsam bearing

Populus deltoides - cottonwood Latin name / triangular (leaf)

Populus grandidentata - bigtooth aspen Latin name / with large teeth

Populus heterophylla - swamp cottonwood Latin name / Greek "hetero" (different) "phylla" (leaf) - with variable leaves

Populus tremuloides - quaking aspen Latin name / trembling

Populus trichocarpa - black cottonwood Latin name / three-parted fruit or Greek "thrix" (hair) and "karpos" (fruit)

Prunus angustifolia - Chickasaw plum Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / narrow-leaved

Prunus avium - sweet cherry Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / of birds (distribute seeds), where birds are found Latin "avis" (bird)

Prunus caroliniana - Carolina laurelcherry Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / of Carolina

Prunus cerasifera - purple leaf plum Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / cherry-bearing

Prunus emarginata - bitter cherry Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / out or away from

Prunus pennsylvanica - fire cherry Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / of Pennsylvania

Prunus persica - peach Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / of Persia

Prunus serotina - black cherry Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / Latin "serus" (late) - late maturing fruit

Prunus serrulata - Kwanzan cherry Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / small teeth (leaves)

Prunus subcordata - klamath plum Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / somewhat heart-shaped

Prunus subhirtella - Higan cherry Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / somewhat hairy

Prunus virginiana - choke cherry Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / of Virginia

Prunus x yedoensis - Yoshino cherry Latin name for plum trees from Greek "prunos" (plum or cherry) / of Tokyo (Yedo)

Pseudotsuga menziesii - Douglas-fir False Tsuga / After naturalist Archibald Menzies

Pueraria lobata - kudzu perhaps Latin "puer" (a boy) / Latin "lobata" (lobed)

Purshia tridentata - bitterbrush unknown - a surname / three teeth (leaves)

Pyracantha coccinea - scarlet firethorn Greek "pyr" (fire) and "akantha" (thorn) / scarlet (fruit), Greek "kakkos" (a berry)

Pyrus calleryana - callery pear Latin name / After J. Callery, French missionary

Pyrus communis - common pear Latin name / common

Quercus acutissima - sawtooth oak Latin name / sharply pointed leaves

Quercus alba - white oak Latin name / white

Quercus bicolor - swamp white oak Latin name / 2-colored

Quercus chrysolepis - canyon live oak Latin name / Latin "chryso" (golden)

Quercus coccinea - scarlet oak Latin name / scarlet, Greek "kakkos" (a berry)

Quercus douglasii - blue oak Latin name / after Douglas

Quercus falcata - southern red oak Latin name / sickle-shaped (leaves)

Quercus gambelli - Gambel oak Latin name / after Gambel

Quercus garryana - Oregon white oak Latin name / unknown - a surname?

Quercus hemisphaerica - Darlington oak Latin name / unknown - perhaps a reference to the dome-shaped crown when open-grown

Quercus ilicifolia - bear oak Latin name / holly-like leaves

Quercus imbricaria - shingle oak Latin name / Latin "imbrex" (tile) - was used for shingles

Quercus incana - bluejack oak Latin name / gray or hoary

Quercus kelloggii - California black oak Latin name / after Kellogg

Quercus laevis - turkey oak Latin name / Latin "laev" (smooth; nimble, light)

Quercus laurifolia - laurel oak Latin name / laurel-like leaves

Quercus lobata - valley oak Latin name / lobed leaves

Quercus lyrata - overcup oak Latin name / Greek "lyra" (lute) - lyre-shaped seed

Quercus macrocarpa - bur oak Latin name / Greek "makros" (large) and "karpos" (seed)

Quercus margarettiae - sand post oak Latin name / perhaps Greek "margarit" (a pearl) or Latin "marg" (a border or edge)

Quercus marilandica - blackjack oak Latin name / of Maryland

Quercus michauxii - swamp chestnut oak Latin name / after Michaux

Quercus muehlenbergii - chinkapin oak Latin name / after G.H.E. Muehlenberg

Quercus nigra - water oak Latin name / black

Quercus pagoda - cherrybark oak Latin name / leaf shaped like a pagoda

Quercus palustris - pin oak Latin name / of swamps - Latin "palus" (swamp)

Quercus phellos - willow oak Latin name / Greek "phellos" (corky - bark has rough, corky ridges)

Quercus prinus - chestnut oak Latin name / perhaps a variation of "primus" (first) or Greek "prinos" (evergreen tree)

Quercus rubra - northern red oak Latin name / red

Quercus shumardii - Shumard oak Latin name / after Shumard

Quercus stellata - post oak Latin name / stellate (covered with stars), referring to hairs on leaf undersides

Quercus velutina - black oak Latin name / Latin "velutum" (velvety, in reference to the buds)

Quercus virginiana - live oak Latin name / of Virginia

Rhamnus purshiana - Cascara buckthorn Greek name for buckthorn "rhamnos" / unknown - a surname?

Rhizophora mangle - red mangrove Greek "rhiz" (a root) and "phor" (carry) / Portuguese "mang" (mongo)

Rhododendron calendulaceum - flame azalea Rose tree - Greek "rhodo" (red) and "dendron" (tree) / like Calendula, referring to the flower color

Rhododendron canescens - swamp azalea Rose tree - Greek "rhodo" (red) and "dendron" (tree) / covered in white, becoming hoary

Rhododendron catawbiense - Catawba rhododendron Rose tree - Greek "rhodo" (red) and "dendron" (tree) / refers to the Catawba River

Rhododendron macrophyllum - Pacific rhododendron Rose tree - Greek "rhodo" (red) and "dendron" (tree) / large leaves

Rhododendron maximum - great rhododendron Rose tree - Greek "rhodo" (red) and "dendron" (tree) / the largest

Rhododendron nudiflorum- pink azalea Rose tree - Greek "rhodo" (red) and "dendron" (tree) / naked flower

Rhododendron occidentale - western azalea Rose tree - Greek "rhodo" (red) and "dendron" (tree) / western

Rhus aromatica - fragrant sumac Latin name from Greek name for sumac "rhous" from Greek "reo" (to flow) / fragrant

Rhus copallina - shining sumac Latin name from Greek name for sumac "rhous" from Greek "reo" (to flow) / Mexican name - yields copal gum

Rhus glabra - smooth sumac Latin name from Greek name for sumac "rhous" from Greek "reo" (to flow) / glabrous (lacking hair)

Rhus typhina - staghorn sumac Latin name from Greek name for sumac "rhous" from Greek "reo" (to flow) / like Typha or "cat-tail-like" (hairy branches)

Ribes sanguineum - red-flowering currant Arabic "ribas" (acidic tasting (fruit)) / blood red (flowers)

Robinia hispida - bristly locust After Jean Robin, French Herbalist / bristly

Robinia neomexicana - New Mexico locust After Jean Robin, French Herbalist / of New Mexico

Robinia pseudoacacia - black locust After Jean Robin, French Herbalist / false acacia, Greek "akakia" (the Egyptian thorn-tree) and "akis" (thorn)

Rosa multiflora - multiflora rose Latin name / many flowers

Rosa rugosa - rugosa rose Latin name / wrinkled (leaves)

Roystonea elata - royal palm unknown / Latin "elat" (high or lofty; proud)

Rubus allegheniensis - Alleghany blackberry Latin name for blackberry / from Alleghany region

Rubus discolor - Himalaya blackberry Latin name for blackberry / two-colored (leaves)

Rubus flagellaris - dewberry Latin name for blackberry / lash, thresh or flail

Rubus idaeus - red raspberry Latin name for blackberry / of Mt. Ida

Rubus laciniatus - evergreen blackberry Latin name for blackberry / deeply cut (leaves)

Rubus occidentalis - black raspberry Latin name for blackberry / western - Latin "occidere" (to set, as the sun)

Rubus odoratus - purple flowering raspberry Latin name for blackberry / scented

Rubus parviflorus - thimbleberry Latin name for blackberry / small-flowered

Rubus phoenicolasius - wine raspberry Latin name for blackberry / with purple hairs (stems)

Rubus spectabilis - salmonberry Latin name for blackberry / spectacular

Rubus ursinus - wild blackberry Latin name for blackberry / of bears - bears eat the fruits

Sabal minor - bush palmetto Latin "sab" (sand) / smaller or slight

Sabal palmetto - cabbage palmetto Latin "sab" (sand) / palm grove

Salix babylonica - weeping willow Latin name / of Babylon

Salix discolor - pussy willow Latin name / two colors (leaf)

Salix nigra - black willow Latin name / black

Sambucus canadensis - American elderberry Greek name for the elder tree / of Canada

Sambucus cerulea - blue elderberry Greek name for the elder tree / Latin "cera" (waxy - leaves)

Sambucus racemosa - red elderberry Greek name for the elder tree / in racemes

Sapium sebiferum - Chinese tallow tree Latin "sapium" (art or craft done by a person) or Latin "sapa" (new wine) / Latin "seb" (tallow)

Sassafras albidum - sassafras American Indian name or from Spanish "saxafrax" / white (leaf undersides)

Sequoia sempervirens - redwood After Sequoiah, son of a British merchant and Cherokee woman / Latin "semper" (always) and "vivere" (to live) - evergreen

Sequoiadendron giganteum - giant sequoia From sequoia and Greek "dendron (tree) / huge

Serenoa repens - saw palmetto interwoven / creeping or low

Smilax glauca - catbriar Greek name / waxy whitish bloom

Smilax laurifolia - laurel greenbrier Greek name / laurel-like leaves

Smilax rotundifolia - common greenbrier Greek name / round-leaved

Solanum dulcamara - bitter nightshade Latin name / sweet and injurious

Sophora japonica - Japanese pagoda tree Arabic name / of Japan

Sorbus americana - American mountainash Latin name for Sorbus domestica / of America

Sorbus aucuparia - European mountainash Latin name for Sorbus domestica / Latin "avis" (bird) and "capere" (to catch) - birds eat the fruits, tree used as bait

Sorbus sitchensis - Sitka mountainash Latin name for Sorbus domestica / of Sitka, Alaska

Spiraea alba - narrowleaf spiraea Greek "speiraira" (plant used in garlands) / white

Spiraea latifolia - meadowsweet Greek "speiraira" (plant used in garlands) / broad-leaved

Staphylea trifolia - bladdernut Greek "staphyle" (cluster - of flowers) / three leaflets

Stewartia spp. - stewartia After John Stuart

Styrax japonicus - Japanese snowbell Greek name of Styrax officinalis / of Japan

Swietenia mahogani - West Indies mahogany unknown / unknown

Symphoricarpos albus - snowberry Greek "symphorein" (bear together) and "karpos" (fruit) refers to clustered fruits / white

Symphoricarpos orbiclatus - coralberry Greek "symphorein" (bear together) and "karpos" (fruit) refers to clustered fruits / orbicular fruits

Symplocos tinctoria - common sweetleaf Greek "symploke" (connection") - stamens are connected / dye or medical solution

Syringa reticulata - Japanese tree lilac Greek "syrinx" (a pipe) for its hollow stems / networked (veins in the leaf)

Syringa vulgaris - common lilac Greek "syrinx" (a pipe) for its hollow stems / common

Tamarix gallica - tamarisk Latin name / of France

Taxodium ascendens - pondcypress From Taxus and Greek "eidos" (resemblence to Taxus) / ascending

Taxodium distichum - baldcypress From Taxus and Greek "eidos" (resemblence to Taxus) / in two rows (leaves) Greek "di" (two) and "stichos" (rank)

Taxus brevifolia - Pacific yew Latin name / short foliage

Taxus baccata - English Yew Latin name / berry-bearing

Thuja occidentalis - northern white-cedar Greek "thyia" (for a juniper or a fragrant-wooded tree) from "thyo" (perfume) / western - Latin "occidere" (to set, as the sun)

Thuja plicata - western redcedar Greek "thyia" (for a juniper or a fragrant-wooded tree) from "thyo" (perfume) / plaited (leaves, branches) - Latin "plicare" (to fold)

Tilia americana - American basswood Latin name of Linden / of America

Tilia cordata - littleleaf linden Latin name of Linden / heart shaped

Tilia tomentosa - silver linden Latin name of Linden / hairy (leaves and twigs)

Torreya californica - California nutmeg After John Torrey / of California

Toxicodendron diversilobum- Pacific poison-oak Greek "toxikon" (poison) and "dendron" (tree) / variable leaves

Toxicodendron quercifolium - poison-oak Greek "toxikon" (poison) and "dendron" (tree) / oak-like leaves

Toxicodendron radicans - poison-ivy Greek "toxikon" (poison) and "dendron" (tree) / with rooting stems

Tsuga canadensis - eastern hemlock Japanese name / of Canada

Tsuga caroliniana - Carolina hemlock Japanese name / of Carolina

Tsuga heterophylla - western hemlock Japanese name / Greek "hetero" (different) "phylla" (leaf) - with variable leaves

Tsuga mertensiana - mountain hemlock Japanese name / after Karl Mertens, German botanist

Ulmus alata - winged elm Latin name / winged (twigs)

Ulmus americana - American elm Latin name / of America

Ulmus parvifolia - Chinese elm Latin name / small leaves

Ulmus pumila - Siberian elm Latin name / dwarf or small

Ulmus rubra - slippery elm Latin name / red

Ulmus thomasii - rock elm Latin name / after horticulturist David Thomas

Umbellularia californica - California laurel Latin "umbella" (umbel) / of California

Vaccinium arboreum - sparkleberry The Latin name for Vaccinium myrtillus or hyacinth / tree-like

Vaccinium membranaceum - big huckleberry The Latin name for Vaccinium myrtillus or hyacinth / like a membrane - thin leaves

Vaccinium ovatum - evergreen huckleberry The Latin name for Vaccinium myrtillus or hyacinth / ovate leaves

Vaccinium parvifolium - red huckleberry The Latin name for Vaccinium myrtillus or hyacinth / small leaves

Vaccinium vacillans - lowbush blueberry The Latin name for Vaccinium myrtillus or hyacinth / Latin "vacill" (waver; stagger, totter, to be in a weak condition)

Viburnum acerifolium - mapleleaf viburnum Latin name for Viburnum lantana / maple-leaved

Viburnum alnifolium - hobblebush Latin name for Viburnum lantana / alder-leaved

Viburnum dentatum - Southern arrowwood Latin name for Viburnum lantana / referring to the teeth on the leaves

Viburnum lentago - nannyberry Latin name for Viburnum lantana / tough but pliable

Viburnum nudum - possumhaw viburnum Latin name for Viburnum lantana / bare or stripped

Viburnum opulus - European cranberrybush Latin name for Viburnum lantana / Latin name for a kind of maple

Viburnum plicatum - doublefile viburnum Latin name for Viburnum lantana / pleated leaves

Viburnum prunifolium - blackhaw Latin name for Viburnum lantana / plum-leaved

Viburnum rhytidophyllum - leatherleaf viburnum Latin name for Viburnum lantana / wrinkled leaves

Viburnum rufidulum - rusty blackhaw Latin name for Viburnum lantana / Latin "rufi" (red - probably a reference to rusty red hairs)

Viburnum trilobum - highbush cranberry Latin name for Viburnum lantana / 3-lobed leaves

Vitis spp. - grape Latin name

Weigela florida - old fashioned weigela After von Weigel, German botanist / flowering Latin "flos" (flower)

Wisteria floribunda - Japanese wisteria After Caspar Wistar, American anatomy professor / flowering profusely

x Cupressocyparis leylandii - Leyland cypress Latin name for Cupressus sempervirens and Greek "kuparissos" (cypress) / crossed by Leyland

Zelkova serrata - Japanese zelkova Caucasian name / serrate (leaves)

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Thursday, March 15, 2001

20010314 Manchester hires Talbot deputy as police chief

Manchester hires Talbot deputy as police chief

http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/carroll/bal-ca.chief14mar14.story?coll=bal%2Dlocal%2Dcarroll

By Sheridan Lyons, Sun Staff, Originally published March 14, 2001

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Manchester has hired a police chief who will begin duty next month, according to Mayor Christopher B. D'Amario.

After interviewing several candidates, the mayor recommended Charles Lewis, 46, who lives near Easton in Talbot County and is a deputy sheriff there.

Lewis' 16-year career in law enforcement has included service as police chief in the town of Ridgely in Caroline County from 1998 to 1999, 6 1/2 years as a town officer in St. Michaels, where he was a sergeant, and 2 1/2 as a detective for the Wicomico County sheriff.

"This was my recommendation to the council," D'Amario said of Lewis, whose position pays about $34,000 and does not provide a vehicle.

The new chief is looking for a residence and plans to begin work in the town of 3,200 about April 2.

A new town officer, Bryan J. Fraim, is in training now, D'Amario said. His hiring will bring the four-man force to full strength.

Timothy G. Timmons, Manchester's police chief since 1997, resigned in January.

D'Amario was criticized by council members because he told them about the resignation later, in a routine mayor's report at that month's council meeting.

Manchester must deal with a recent resignation and find a town manager to replace Philip L. Arbaugh. D'Amario said the position would be advertised.

"

The Baltimore Sun

Monday, February 26, 2001

Feb. 25, 2001: Kevin Dayhoff - Group starting local bank Penn Mar Community Bank



Smaller businesses, individuals targeted

May open by summer

February 25, 2001|By Maria Blackburn | Maria Blackburn, SUN STAFF


[…]

New Windsor State Bank is the only locally owned and operated bank in Carroll County, according to Kevin E. Dayhoff, a director with Penn Mar who also is a Westminster city councilman.

The bank's board of directors have raised $1 million to fund the bank. They hope that a stock offering will raise an additional $5 million.

[…]

Seeking to provide personalized banking services to Carroll County customers, a group of area businessmen are working to establish a community bank in Westminster.

Penn Mar Bancshares Inc. recently received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to open Penn Mar Community Bank. Work has begun on the 4,500-square-foot building at Clifton Boulevard and Woodward Road.



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Tuesday, January 30, 2001

20010130 Cockey’s Tavern Purchase Support Letter

Cockey’s Tavern, Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland Purchase Support Letter

January 30, 2001

Mr. Jay A. Graybeal
Director of Museum and Library
Historical Society of Carroll County
210 East Main Street
Westminster, Md. 21157-5225

Dear Jay;

I can't tell you how excited I am about the Historical Society purchasing Cockey's Tavern. Of course my wife, Caroline Babylon, and I first knew it as Thelma Hoffman's Boarding House in the 1960s. Our friend and teacher Mike Eaton lived there. Caroline and I married as a result of our mutual friendship with Mr. Eaton. I'm sure you remember Mr. Eaton, he taught English and Drama in Carroll County Public Schools for 41 years. Mr. Eaton passed away April 24, 1995 and has since become somewhat of a legend in our community. It is certainly only fitting that his former home, also a legend in our community, continues to make history in Carroll County.

Of course many of my fellow historians understand Cockey's to be the Willis-Boyle House. As a Westminster native, and the product of many generations of Carroll County farmers, merchants and bankers, I have always been quite impressed with the prominent role that Cockey's has played in Carroll County history.

Built in the early 19th century, Cockey's serves as the quintessential beginning of our community's Smart Growth principles. As the Willis-Boyle House, it served as an anchor for concentrating growth in and around the organized communities of the county. Indeed, the Willis-Boyle House became not only figuratively, but literally the center and county seat of Carroll County when it was formed in 1837.

A year or so ago, the Historical Society identified a compelling need to expand its services and its facilities to meet the ever increasing and growing demand of our community to understand and know it roots and preserve its history. Many of my community leader colleagues were afraid that it might be necessary for the Historical Society to leave Main Street, Westminster. Not only do we whole-heartedly support your endeavor to stay on Main Street in Westminster, we are energized by your leadership role and sense of community responsibility in extending Westminster's revitalization from downtown Westminster to East Main Street. This project bookends downtown Westminster with its counterpart, the Carroll Theater Cultural Arts alternative use revitalization effort at the other end of town. I am very excited about the traffic flow, inspiration, and economic contagion that an Historical Society Campus will generate on East Main Street, Westminster.

I am thrilled to watch the Willis-Boyle House lead Westminster into another century, just as it has at the beginning of the 19th and 20th centuries. I am very proud of the leadership team at the Historical Society of Carroll County for stepping up to the plate and assuming a key and critical role in community leadership.

Thank you for your efforts. God Bless you.

With best regards, I remain
Sincerely yours,


Kevin E. Dayhoff
Westminster City Councilman

Monday, January 22, 2001

20010120 President George W. Bush's January 20, 2001 Inaugural Address

President George W. Bush's January 20, 2001 Inaugural Address

President Clinton, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, the peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

As I begin, I thank President Clinton for his service to our nation.

And I thank Vice President Gore for a contest conducted with spirit and ended with grace.

I am honored and humbled to stand here, where so many of America's leaders have come before me, and so many will follow.

We have a place, all of us, in a long story--a story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer.

It is the American story--a story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals.

The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.

Americans are called to enact this promise in our lives and in our laws. And though our nation has sometimes halted, and sometimes delayed, we must follow no other course.

Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.

Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.

While many of our citizens prosper, others doubt the promise, even the justice, of our own country. The ambitions of some Americans are limited by failing schools and hidden prejudice and the circumstances of their birth. And sometimes our differences run so deep, it seems we share a continent, but not a country.

We do not accept this, and we will not allow it. Our unity, our union, is the serious work of leaders and citizens in every generation. And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity.

I know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves who creates us equal in His image.

And we are confident in principles that unite and lead us onward.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American.

Today, we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

America, at its best, matches a commitment to principle with a concern for civility. A civil society demands from each of us good will and respect, fair dealing and forgiveness.

Some seem to believe that our politics can afford to be petty because, in a time of peace, the stakes of our debates appear small.

But the stakes for America are never small. If our country does not lead the cause of freedom, it will not be led. If we do not turn the hearts of children toward knowledge and character, we will lose their gifts and undermine their idealism. If we permit our economy to drift and decline, the vulnerable will suffer most.

We must live up to the calling we share. Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos. And this commitment, if we keep it, is a way to shared accomplishment.

America, at its best, is also courageous.

Our national courage has been clear in times of depression and war, when defending common dangers defined our common good. Now we must choose if the example of our fathers and mothers will inspire us or condemn us. We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.

We will reform Social Security and Medicare, sparing our children from struggles we have the power to prevent. And we will reduce taxes, to recover the momentum of our economy and reward the effort and enterprise of working Americans.

We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge.

We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.

The enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake: America remains engaged in the world by history and by choice, shaping a balance of power that favors freedom. We will defend our allies and our interests. We will show purpose without arrogance. We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength. And to all nations, we will speak for the values that gave our nation birth.

America, at its best, is compassionate. In the quiet of American conscience, we know that deep, persistent poverty is unworthy of our nation's promise.

And whatever our views of its cause, we can agree that children at risk are not at fault. Abandonment and abuse are not acts of God, they are failures of love.

And the proliferation of prisons, however necessary, is no substitute for hope and order in our souls.

Where there is suffering, there is duty. Americans in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but priorities. And all of us are diminished when any are hopeless.

Government has great responsibilities for public safety and public health, for civil rights and common schools. Yet compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government.

And some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and in our laws.

Many in our country do not know the pain of poverty, but we can listen to those who do.

And I can pledge our nation to a goal: When we see that wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other side.

America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected.

Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience. And though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper fulfillment. We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments. And we find that children and community are the commitments that set us free.

Our public interest depends on private character, on civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency which give direction to our freedom.

Sometimes in life we are called to do great things. But as a saint of our times has said, every day we are called to do small things with great love. The most important tasks of a democracy are done by everyone.

I will live and lead by these principles: to advance my convictions with civility, to pursue the public interest with courage, to speak for greater justice and compassion, to call for responsibility and try to live it as well.

In all these ways, I will bring the values of our history to the care of our times.

What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves. When this spirit of citizenship is missing, no government program can replace it. When this spirit is present, no wrong can stand against it.

After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson: ``We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?''

Much time has passed since Jefferson arrived for his inauguration. The years and changes accumulate. But the themes of this day he would know: our nation's grand story of courage and its simple dream of dignity.

We are not this story's author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose. Yet his purpose is achieved in our duty, and our duty is fulfilled in service to one another.

Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing, we renew that purpose today, to make our country more just and generous, to affirm the dignity of our lives and every life.

This work continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.

God bless you all, and God bless America.

4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County

4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County

January 21st, 2001

The 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program is always seeking volunteers, ages 14 and up, to help with lessons at the 4-H arena at the Agriculture Center in Westminster. Horse experience is a plus, but is not required. for more information og here http://www.trp4h.org/index.html or call 410-876-1760.

4-H Therapeutic Riding provides a program of therapeutic horseback riding to children and adults with disabilities.

For over 20 years, this all-volunteer organization has served more than 1,500 individuals with a wide range of disabilities.

Therapeutic riding uses horses to make positive contributions to the physical, cognitive, emotional and social well being of individuals with disabilities.

The program serves as a training center for Special Olympic athletes competing locally and at the Special Olympic World Games.

Following standards of the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association, adaptations are made to allow individuals with disabilities to participate in various riding activities.

The program emphasizes cognitive, behavioral, psychological and physical goals for each participant.

My wife, Caroline, serves as a volunteer NARHA certified instructor, Board member and Treasurer. She also serves on the Carroll County Agriculture Center Board representing 4-H Therapeutic Riding and as the Ag Center Treasurer.

I volunteer also – mostly in a grounds maintenance – property management capacity, but I been known to do whatever I’m asked.

I designed the original landscape design for the property and, along with Caroline and many other volunteers, helped install the plants and build run-in sheds.

I grew up participating in 4-H.

In the past, I have taught many classes for the Cooperative Extension Service, served on numerous committees including: the Carroll Co. Agriculture Program Advisory Committee of the University of MD Cooperative Extension Service; the Cooperative Extension Service Maintenance Conference Planning Committee. I also served on a special Carroll & Frederick County agricultural community advisory taskforce for Dr. Raymond J. Miller, University of Maryland Vice Chancellor for Agricultural Affairs in the 1980s.

January 21st, 2001

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Sunday, January 21, 2001

20010121 SDOSM Ronald Reagan's 5 Greatest (Or Infamous) Quotes

Ronald Reagan's 5 Greatest (Or Infamous) Quotes

January 21, 2001

1. How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understand Marx and Lenin.

2. Those young people [demand] the right to send blood to the enemy in Vietnam. I think they should be allowed to do that--providing they send it in the original container." -- as governor of California on anti-war protestors

3. Depression is when you're out of work. A recession is when your neighbor is out of work. Recovery is when Jimmy Carter's out of work." -- on his opponent in the 1980 presidential campaign

4. I'm not worried about the deficit. It's big enough to take care of itself." -- on the federal budget, 1984

5. The party official asks a farmer how thinks are going, and the farmer replies that the harvest is so bountiful that the potatoes would reach the foot of God if piled on top of one another. 'But this is the Soviet Union,' says the commissar. 'There is no God here.' The farmer replies, 'That's right. There are no potatoes either.' -- a favorite joke about the former U.S.S.R.

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Friday, January 19, 2001

RAVENS WEEK IN WESTMINSTER


In addition to lighting-up the Westminster City Hall and Clock Tower in purple light - Westminster Mayor and Common Council, appointed officials, and staff where Ravens t-shirts in celebration of Ravens Week in Westminster January 18, 2001

RAVENS WEEK IN WESTMINSTER

PRESS RELEASE - January 18, 2001

Contact: Mayor Kenneth A. Yowan 410-848-2522

WESTMINSTER'S SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR THE BALTIMORE RAVENS

As the summer home of the Baltimore Ravens' Training Camp at Western Maryland College, and to express the overwhelming support of the City of Westminster in the Ravens' bid for the Super Bowl XXXV Championship, the following arrangements have been made:

A Mayor's Proclamation will be presented during the Monday, January 22, 2001 Mayor and Council Meeting beginning at 7:00 p.m., declaring the week of January 22, 2001 through January 28, 2001 "Ravens Week in Westminster" 

Ravens AFC Champion banners will be hung on city light poles.

Support banners will be hung across Main Street.

City Hall and the old Clock Tower will be awash in purple light.

The Press and members of the public are welcome and invited to attend the Monday, January 22, 2001 Council Meeting.

KENNETH A. YOWAN, Mayor

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MAYOR’S PROCLAMATION

                                  RAVENS WEEK IN WESTMINSTER

WHEREAS, once upon a midnight dreary some seventeen years ago, the fans of the State of Maryland, and the City of Westminster lost their beloved National Football League team. And for year after year eagerly wished the morrow, dreaming dreams that no mortal had ever dared to dream before, but for twelve long years the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token; and

WHEREAS, in October 1995, there came a tapping at our chamber door, a tapping louder than before, and when the shutters were flung open, in there stepped the stately RAVENS of the saintly days of yore; and

WHEREAS, in the summer of 1996, these proud birds landed on the campus of Western Maryland College in Westminster to conduct training camp prior to their inaugural season as our proud reentry into the National Football League; and

WHEREAS, only five years later, led by Brian Billick and sporting the most tenacious defense ever known, this ebony bird has beguiled my formerly sad fancy into smiling, and opponent after opponent now pleads "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door" but the proud RAVENS quoth "Nevermore"; and

WHEREAS, this coming Sunday evening, it is our fervent belief that come the end of the game, there will be the RAVENS, never flitting, but rather sitting atop the NFL standings, merely this, and nothing more,

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Kenneth A. Yowan, Mayor of the City of Westminster, do hereby proclaim the week of January 22-28, 2001 as RAVENS WEEK IN WESTMINSTER, in recognition of their SUPER season, and I commend this observance to all our citizens and encourage one and all to show their support by "thinking purple" through garb and decoration.


Signed at City Hall, this
Twenty-Second day of January
in the year Two Thousand One.                                              


KENNETH A. YOWAN

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Monday, January 01, 2001

20010100 About the 4H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County

UPDATED: November 2nd, 2006

ALL the information below – AND MORE - is found on the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County web site at: http://www.trp4h.org/index.html

What is Therapeutic Riding?

Therapeutic riding is an individualized program of learning to ride a horse which takes into account a person's physical, mental, and emotional strengths and limitations. The horses, staff, and volunteers involved in therapeutic riding have all been carefully selected and trained to accommodate the physical, mental, or social disabilities of the rider.

Improved physical strength, balance, mobility and coordination are accomplished through the physical act of riding a horse. Increased attention, concentration, learning, and verbal skills are inherent in learning the skills necessary to ride successfully. Bonding with the horse, making new friends, and respecting authority are some of the social improvements we see. Improvements in self esteem, self control, and confidence also arise from the experience of success in learning to ride. Therapeutic riding is fun and effective!

Mission Statement

The 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County will provide persons with disabilities the opportunity to benefit from a continuous program of therapeutic horseback riding, in a safe environment, under the instruction of professionally trained staff, at a locally available facility.

It is the policy of the MD Cooperative Extension that no person shall be subjected to discrimination on the grounds of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital or parental status, or disability.

Who We Are

Our History

The 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County was established in 1978 to provide an opportunity for children and adults with disabilities to benefit from riding horses. Beginning with lessons at a local farm, the program moved to the Ag Center outdoor ring and then to the indoor arena in 1997. Everyone associated with the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program is a volunteer, including riding instructors, therapists, horse handlers, and side-walkers.

Our horses were originally borrowed and brought to lessons weekly. Now all are donated, loaned or leased to the program. During each session they are stabled and cared for on land loaned by the Farm Museum and then sent to vacation homes. Many are retired from successful careers in the show ring, hunt field, dressage arena, or as schooling horses or backyard ponies. All are trained specifically to work in our therapeutic riding program and handle unusual sights, sounds, and sensations, such as wheelchairs, canes, bouncing balls, unbalanced riders, side-walkers crowding close.

In its 28 years of operation, more than 100 horses and 4000 volunteers have worked together to provide therapeutic riding classes to more than 2000 riders.

What We Do

TRP Today

4-H TRP of Carroll County offers a one-hour lesson of 4 to 6 riders, similar in age or ability, that focuses on individual riding skills while gaining a therapeutic benefit. These benefits include improving muscle tone and strength, improving hand/eye coordination and balance, improving peer interaction and communication, increasing self-esteem, and developing a sense of control. Ten-week sessions are held each fall and spring. Each session seats 45-50 riders using 7 horses, assisted by 50 volunteers. Volunteers accrue more than 1300 hours of service during each session.

At the beginning of each session Instructors establish goals for each rider, working with the rider, parents or guardian. They create a wide variety of activities and exercises designed to increase the student's ability to listen, learn, and communicate.

Riders work on their horsemanship skills and willingness to try new things. Students may be taught how to help groom and tack their horses. Classes include arena riding, trail rides, and group activities.

For some riders this is their competitive sport of choice. They strive to compete at the local, national, and international levels in equestrian sports. 4-H TRP riders regularly compete in horse shows at Freedom Hills, Thorncroft, Devon, Special Olympics, and Maryland Challenged Equestrian Trials.

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