'Spring beauty' is the common name for 'Claytonia virginica'. This wildflower has thick body parts that grow underground and that are called 'tubers'. Tubers look like small potatoes and are considered a delicious, nutritious part of traditional native American meals.
All animals have only 1 official scientific name, that is one of the advantages to the scientific naming system.
The scientific name for clam is Tridacna maxima.
The common name is horsetails.
The common name for limestone is simply "limestone".
The common name for Methanobacterium is methane bacteria.
'Claytonia virginica' is the scientific, Latin or binomial name for the Spring beauty wildflower. Its native range is in moist woods and the banks of rivers and streams. So it's a ground cover that knows how to share space with grasses and with woody and herbaceous plants.
Assuming you meant Mertensia virginica - it's the Virginia Bluebell
It has 540 names trust me i got it from 15 ttly different sites an 2 top tat off my grandpa is a florist: they are flowers tat eat spiders! (yuk) an they r ugh-ga-ly; blend with swampy/mud-like/rele gross places, Omg get dis they're also moldy fungi (they pollen is) aqn only last 4 bout 3-6 hrs
All animals have only 1 official scientific name, that is one of the advantages to the scientific naming system.
Virginia Bluebell
Mertensia virginica
Claytonia cordifolia was created in 1882.
Claytonia palustris was created in 1987.
Claytonia nevadensis was created in 1876.
Claytonia umbellata was created in 1871.
Claytonia megarhiza was created in 1862.
Claytonia parviflora was created in 1832.