How Understanding Plant Names Helps You Read the Land

Plant systematics and Latin plant names intimidate a lot of people. But they shouldn’t. In this episode, I sit down with Eric Comley, a herbaceous plants instructor, to break down why scientific plant names actually matter and how they help everyday people understand plants, landscapes, and ecosystems more clearly. We talk about why Latin names are descriptive tools rather than academic jargon, how genus and species relationships help you learn plants faster, and how dichotomous keys really w...