Posts Tagged ‘Plant Families’
May 21, 2026 Pierre Magnol, Emily Dix, Robert Creeley, Bella Donna by Jill Johnson, and Henri Rousseau
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Today’s Show Notes On this day in 1950, the English gardener Vita Sackville-West sat down with her garden journal and noticed something she couldn’t let go…
Read MoreAdolf Engler: The Botanist Who Gave Us Plant Families
The Natural Plant Families March 25, 1844 Today is the birthday of the German botanist Adolf Engler. Adolf developed a system for plant classification now called the Engler System that is still used in some specialty areas today. His masterpiece was Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (“The Natural Plant Families”). The concept of Plant Families is useful…
Read MoreMathias de l’Obel: The Flemish Botanist Who Distinguished Monocots and Dicots
Lovely Lobelia March 3, 1616 Today is the birthday of the Flemish physician and botanist Mathias de l’Obel (“ma-TEE-us dew Lew-bell”). Mathias practiced medicine in England. And among his accomplishments, Mathias was the first botanist to recognize the difference between monocots and dicots. Today we remember Mathias de l’Obel (“LEW-bell”) with the Lobelia plant. Before…
Read MoreAugustin Pyramus de Candolle: The Master Botanist and Founder of a Botanical Dynasty
A Living Legacy: The Botanical Garden of Geneva Today is the birthday of the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. Candolle named hundreds of plants. His seven-volume monumental work, Prodromus, was an effort to characterize all of the plant families and establishing the basis for the science of botany. He only finished two volumes. Augustin’s…
Read MoreBernard de Jussieu: Pioneer of Natural Plant Classification and Botanical Legacy
Developer of the First Natural Classification of Plants Today is the anniversary of the death of the French naturalist and botanist Bernard de Jussieu who died on this day in 1777. Jussieu was a French botanist who developed the first natural classification of flowering plants. Today, there’s a metro station near the botanical garden in…
Read MorePlant Families by Ross Bayton
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Plant Families by Ross Bayton This book came out in 2017, and the subtitle is A Guide for Gardeners and Botanists (aka Green Thumb’s Guide to Plant Family Trees.) If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a garden, overwhelmed by the sheer variety of plants, you’re not alone. Plant…
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