The Dahlia.
It means a flower that was named after Anders Dahl, a Swedish botanist.
If you are looking for the answer to a worksheet entitled "5-10 Items Named After People" then the answer is Poinsettia.
Flowers get their names from the people that discover them or sometimes hybridize them. Carl Linnaeus was the Swedish botanist that organized plants into families and gave them Latin names.
The first logical, consistent and scientific system for classifying living things was developed by a brilliant Swedish botanist named Carl Linnaeus in the eighteenth century. His work is still the basis of classification for all living things.
It was discovered by a Swedish chemist named Georg Brandt in 1735
It means a flower that was named after Anders Dahl, a Swedish botanist.
It was named after a Swedish botanist so Swedish.
Dahlia flowers were not invented. The flower existed for many thousands of years. But many people have hybridized it so there are many thousands of different dahlia.
It was named after the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.
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Perhaps the question should be "named by a botanist?" Hydrangea - or one of the plants known as the Christmas Flower (also Euphorbia pulcherrima/ Poinsettia) was first named by Carl Linnaeus - the "father" of modern botanical taxonomy.
If you are looking for the answer to a worksheet entitled "5-10 Items Named After People" then the answer is Poinsettia.
This plant was discovered in Mexico and named after Anders Dahl, a Swedish botanist (1751-1789)
It's from New Latin, named for the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl who lived in the 1700s.
The name Dalia has multiple origins. It can be a variant of the name Dahlia, which is derived from the name of the flower Dahlia, named after the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl. Dalia can also be a variant of the name Daliah, which has Hebrew origins and means "branch" or "flower."
Flowers get their names from the people that discover them or sometimes hybridize them. Carl Linnaeus was the Swedish botanist that organized plants into families and gave them Latin names.