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Colloquial Plant Names

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Baby's breath
    Black eyed Susan

  • pr1mr0sepr1mr0se Posts: 1,193
    Granny's bonnets (aquilegia)
    Dutchman's trousers (Dicentra)
    Snapdragons/bunny ears (antirrhinum)
    Poached Egg plant (limnanthes)
    Soldiers and Sailors (pulmonaria)
  • paul_in_surreypaul_in_surrey Posts: 239
    England batting order (Apium claudicationem)

    “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    bunny ears
    elephants ears
    lambs ears
    cats ears
    mouse ears
    mule ears
    donkey ears
    llama ears*

    (*ok, I made up the last one)

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Fish ears.  Things that don't flower.
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Egg and Bacon and Grannys toenail - both names for birds foot trefoil.

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    plant pauper said:
    My neighbour yesterday was admiring my mimulus flowers but she called them monkey flowers. I haven't heard anyone call them that since my granny!!!

    Wasn't my mum was it pp? 
    She calls them "monkey musk" 😳
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Grannys toenail - eeeww. Not a kind image.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Old Man’s Whiskers
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Jewel weed, hens and chicks, bladderwort.. 
    Utah, USA.
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