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Because the same common names are used to describe different plants... which may be similar to each other or wildly different. The scientific names of plants are specifically designed to identify a particular species clearly and unambiguously.
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Why are scientific names used to describe organisms rather than common names?
Common names might not be as common as you think. Organisms can be known by several different common names, depending on when and where you are. Inversely, several different plants may be referred to with the same common name, depending on their similarities. Scientific names never change, and no two differing organisms have the same scientific name. This allows for a better understanding and grouping of organisms within the scientific community.
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The two-word Latin names are essential to scientists because they are the common names that scientists all over the world use in the same way, relardless of their own language, to describe the family and species (hence the two words) of all living things. Without the Latin name, scientist would be endlessly looking in dictionaries to find out which organism exactly a scientist from another country was describing in an article or book and there would be endless misunderstandings between them if all countries and language groups had their own way of naming and classifying living organisms.
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Because common names vary from place to place and many don't accurately define a species.
