Well, a few things: The first time I saw and identified crimson sage (Salvia henryi) was years ago just outside…
It was Carl Linnaeus, the king of binomial nomenclature, who decided to use the classical Latin name fraxinus as the genus for ash trees....
I certainly opened a can of worms, at least for myself, when I started reading about Forestiera species. I had learned about F. neomexicana...