This week’s post is more plants in our database named after people; mostly naturalists but some patrons, friends, & family members too. Enjoy the pictures & see how many of these plants or people you know.

• Archibald Menzies (March 15, 1754 – February 15, 1842)
• Franz Carl Mertens (April 3, 1764 – June 19, 1831)
• André Michaux (March 8, 1746 – October 11, 1802)
• Thomas Nuttall (January 5, 1786 – September 10, 1859)
• Rhiannon Weakley
• Ferdinand Ignatius Xavier Rugel (1806 – 1879)
• Charles Wilkins Short (October 6, 1794 – March 7, 1863)
• Robert James Shuttleworth (February 1810 – April 18, 1874)
• John Kunkel Small (January 1869 – 1938)
• John Tradescant the Elder (1570s – April 1638) & John Tradescant the Younger (August 4, 1608 – April 22, 1662)
• George Vasey (February 28, 1822 – March 3, 1893)
• Thomas Walter (c. 1740 – January 17, 1789)

Photography by Ken Borgfeldt, Cindy Carpenter, David Heavner, Richard Holzman,  Betty Jones, Mary Knierim, Penny Longhurst, Jim Poling, Lucy Prim, Randy Richardson & Joe Standaert. Click on any picture to zoom & enter the slide show.