Botanical Accuracy

Welcome to the "Better Botanical Business Bureau", where botanical mistakes in commercial and public venues and products are showcased and corrected. It is not unusual with products, ingredients, and images used in media, design, and commercial works to be presented with the wrong common names, wrong species names, and/or wrong ingredients. This blog provides scientific and educational information to correct such mistakes as part of a global effort to increase botanical knowledge.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Dandelions - mistakes in the field

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Dandelions are ubiquitous plants, common in fields and gardens, and also both beloved and hated.  We love their fluffy fruiting heads with t...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Artemisia, a spelling misery

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The large genus Artemisia in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) contains some very potent plants and is well-known around the world for a var...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

RQ: Use of scientific names as English words

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READER QUESTION: If an article lists a series of plants, such as "osmundas, polystichums, and polypodies," should the names be ca...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The species names of citrus - a sweet, sour, and sticky mess

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Everybody knows the great and tasty citrus fruits - lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit, tangerine, and clementine, and maybe even the more rare...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

New logo for botanical detectives...

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Botanical Accuracy has gotten a new custom-made logo designed by Clayton Leadbetter.  Love it! Thanks, Clayton!

Flowering ferns and other mythical greens

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The Philadelphia Flower Show is a paradise for winter-weary gardeners.  It can also be great fodder for botanical accuracy blog posts, but I...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Pollen allergy? Not from thistles

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This ad is marketing the allergy medicine Singulair (Merck) and it is titled 'go nose to nose with allergies'.  And right ne...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Are there cattails among the nymphs in the waterlilies?

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Sometimes you run into botanical mistakes that just makes no sense.  Mistakes that are so strange, that you wonder not just want the author ...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Teasels tousled with thistles

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Thistles are such familiar plants to most of us, these spiky, thorny, sharp-leaved plants with fuzzy purple or pink, or less commonly yellow...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Wanted: italics and correct capitalization

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As a botanists and scientists I am sure most of us have pet peeves on how scientific information is handled in everyday life.  One of mine i...
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