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Vicia cracca

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Vicia cracca. See image source here.

#200 They called me Vicia cracca, also known as Vicia douglassii, and Vicia cracca subsp. grossheimii. I pay homage to the male botanists Douglass (I couldn’t find his records), and Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim. They first catalogued me in 1753.

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Brachypodium sylvaticum

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Brachypodium sylvaticum. See image source here.

#192 They called me Brachypodium sylvaticum, also known as Brachypodium wattii, Brachypodium sylvaticum subsp. spryginii, Brachypodium fontanesii, and Brachypodium spryginii. I pay homage to the male botanists Sprygin (I couldn’t find his records), Fontanes (I couldn’t find his records), and George Watt, or David Allan Poe Watt. They first catalogued me in 1812.

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Iris laevigata

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Iris laevigata. See image source here.

#25 They called me Iris laevigata, also known as Iris gmelinii, and Iris dierinckii. I pay homage to the male botanists Dierinck (I couldn’t find his records), and Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johann Georg Gmelin, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, or Carl Christian Gmelin. They first catalogued me in 1839.