I like the way the family name Polemoniaceae just rolls off the tongue. What a delicious word to say. Oh, and I love the...
I meant to talk a little more about the leaves of Physocarpus monogynus. I did say that they resemble the leaves of a currant...
It was Linnaeus that created the name Mimosa from the Greek: mimos for mime and the suffix osa for resembling. As to the plant...