{"id":1421,"date":"2017-03-26T16:54:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T20:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vnps.org\/potowmack\/?page_id=1421"},"modified":"2020-10-19T19:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T23:53:48","slug":"botanic-names-some-of-these-plants-are-like-one-another-some-of-these-plants-are-kind-of-the-same-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vnps.org\/potowmack\/botanic-names-some-of-these-plants-are-like-one-another-some-of-these-plants-are-kind-of-the-same-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Botanic Names: Some of These Plants Are Like One Another; Some of These Plants Are Kind of the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Or at least some plants are named after other plants. Specific epithets (the second words of binomial names) that end in \u201coides\u201d often call attention to similarities to another genus of plants. So <i>Acer platanoides<\/i> (Norway Maple) is named after the Sycamore genus <i>Platanus<\/i> because Norway Maple\u2019s leaves are wide like Sycamore\u2019s. <i>Heliopsis helianthoides<\/i> (Ox-eye Sunflower) is named after the genus of true sunflowers <i>Helianthus<\/i>. <i>Boltonia asteroides<\/i> (common names not well agreed upon: White Doll\u2019s Daisy, Starwort, False Aster, or Thousand-flower Aster) does indeed resemble a small <i>Aster<\/i>. <i>Geum fragarioides<\/i> (formerly <i>Waldsteinia fragarioides<\/i>, Barren Strawberry) shares the three-parted leaves &amp; growth habit of <i>Fragaria<\/i>, the true Strawberries. And <i>Penthorum sedoides<\/i> (Ditch Stonecrop) looks at least a little like members of the genus <i>Sedum<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Some of these similarities are not very helpful locally: <i>Polystichum acrostichoides<\/i> (Christmas fern) and <i>Deparia acrostichoides<\/i> (Silvery Spleenwort) are named for the genus <i>Acrostichum<\/i>. When Linnaeus first created this genus, it was an extensive genus of ferns in which the sori form a solid mass on the back of the frond. Better samples &amp; clearer views have reduced the genus <i>Acrostichum<\/i> to 4 species of swamp ferns, only one of which is found in the US, and that no nearer to us than Florida, Hawaii, &amp; Puerto Rico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The vagaries of taxonomic shifts have given us some oddities: Rue Anemone, formerly <i>Anemonella thalictroides<\/i>, is now <i>Thalictrum thalictroides<\/i>, \u201cthe Thalictrum that looks like a Thalictrum.\u201d Similarly Southern Mountain-mint, formerly <i>Tullia pycnanthemoides<\/i>, is now <i>Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides<\/i>. \u201cPycnanthemum\u201d translates as densely flowered, which suits the mountain mints well, but Southern Mountain-mint is no more densely flowered than the others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Chestnut Oak\u2019s botanic name has shifted from <i>Quercus prinus<\/i> to <i>Quercus montana<\/i>, but the older name is still recalled in <i>Quercus prinoides<\/i>, the Dwarf Chinkapin Oak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">And yes, there are \u201coides\u201d that are general descriptors rather than references to other plant genera, as <i>Populus deltoides<\/i> (Eastern Cottonwood, with triangular or delta-shaped leaves) and <i>Populus tremuloides<\/i> (Quaking Aspen, with trembling leaves). But whenever you see a plant name that contains \u201coides,\u201d start looking for what that plant is being compared to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Margaret Chatham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least some plants are named after other plants. Specific epithets (the second words of binomial names) that end in \u201coides\u201d often call attention to similarities to another genus of plants. So Acer platanoides (Norway Maple) is named after the Sycamore genus Platanus because Norway Maple\u2019s leaves are wide like Sycamore\u2019s. Heliopsis helianthoides (Ox-eye&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18589,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"tpl-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Botanic Names: Some of These Plants Are Like One Another; Some of These Plants Are Kind of the Same - VNPS Potowmack Chapter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vnps.org\/potowmack\/botanic-names-some-of-these-plants-are-like-one-another-some-of-these-plants-are-kind-of-the-same-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Botanic Names: Some of These Plants Are Like One Another; Some of These Plants Are Kind of the Same - VNPS Potowmack Chapter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Or at least some plants are named after other plants. 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