Latin Name Meaning/Origin
Latin Name Meaning/Origin
Latin Name Meaning/Origin
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<strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Name</strong><br />
Abies<br />
concolor<br />
Acer<br />
campestre<br />
ginnala<br />
griseum<br />
nigrum<br />
platanoides<br />
rubrum<br />
saccharinum<br />
saccharum<br />
tataricum<br />
Aesculus<br />
flava<br />
glabra<br />
hippocastanum<br />
parvifolia<br />
x carnea<br />
Alnus<br />
glutinosa<br />
rugosa<br />
Amelanchier<br />
alnifolia<br />
arborea<br />
canadensis<br />
laevis<br />
Asimina<br />
triloba<br />
Betula<br />
nigra<br />
pendula<br />
platyphylla japonica<br />
populifolia<br />
Carpinus<br />
betulus<br />
caroliniana<br />
japonica<br />
Carya<br />
cordiformis<br />
illinoinensis<br />
ovata<br />
Catalpa<br />
speciosa<br />
Celtis<br />
occidentalis<br />
Cephalanthus<br />
occidentalis<br />
Cercidiphyllum<br />
japonicum<br />
Cercis<br />
canadensis<br />
Chionanthus<br />
x virginicus<br />
Cladastris<br />
lutea<br />
Clethra<br />
alnifolia<br />
<strong>Meaning</strong>/<strong>Origin</strong><br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: Fir, from abire (to rise)<br />
same coloring throughout<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: Maple, also means sharp<br />
of the fields<br />
common name from Asia<br />
grey<br />
black<br />
resembling Platanus<br />
red<br />
sugary<br />
Greek: sakcharon, sugarcane<br />
from Tartary region of Asia<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: type of oak<br />
yellow<br />
smooth, without hairs<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: horsechestnut, from horseshoe shaped leaf scars<br />
small leaved<br />
flesh or deep pink<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: Alder<br />
gluey or sticky<br />
wrinkled<br />
French: name for A. ovalis<br />
leaves like those of alder<br />
tree-like<br />
from Canada<br />
smooth, hairless<br />
French: version of Indian assimin<br />
three lobes<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: birch tree<br />
black<br />
hanging down<br />
with broad leaves, from Japan<br />
leaves like those of Poplar<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: hornbeam<br />
resembling Birch<br />
from N. or S. Carolina<br />
from Japan<br />
Greek: karya, walnut tree<br />
heart shaped<br />
from Illinois<br />
egg shaped<br />
Native American: for C. bignonioides<br />
showy<br />
Greek: unrelated tree<br />
from the Occident/Western world<br />
Greek: kephale , head<br />
from the Occident/Western world<br />
Leaves like Cercis<br />
from Japan<br />
Greek: kerkis , Judas tree<br />
from Canada<br />
Greek: chion (white) and anthos (a flower)<br />
from Virginia<br />
Greek: klados (branch) and thraustos (fragile)<br />
yellow<br />
Greek: klethra, white alder tree, similar leaves<br />
leaves like those of alder
<strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Name</strong><br />
Cornus<br />
alba<br />
mas<br />
pumila<br />
racemosa<br />
Corylus<br />
americana<br />
colurna<br />
Cotoneaster<br />
acutifolia<br />
apiculata<br />
horizontalis<br />
Crataegus<br />
crusgalli<br />
crusgalli inermis<br />
mollis<br />
phaenopyrum Cordata<br />
Eucommia<br />
ulmoides<br />
Fagus<br />
grandiflora<br />
sylvatica<br />
Fraxinus<br />
quadrangulata<br />
Ginkgo<br />
biloba<br />
Gleditsia<br />
triancanthos inermis<br />
Gymnocladus<br />
dioicus<br />
Halesia<br />
monticola<br />
Hamamelis<br />
virginiana<br />
Ilex<br />
verticillata<br />
Juglans<br />
cinera<br />
nigra<br />
Juniperus<br />
chinensis<br />
Koelreuteria<br />
paniculata<br />
Larix<br />
decidua<br />
laricina<br />
Liriodendron<br />
tulipifera<br />
Maackia<br />
amurensis<br />
Magnolia<br />
x soulangiana<br />
Malus<br />
domestica<br />
sargentii<br />
Metasequoia<br />
glyptostroboides<br />
<strong>Meaning</strong>/<strong>Origin</strong><br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: Cornelian cherry (C. mas)<br />
white<br />
male, masculine<br />
dwarf<br />
flowers in a raceme<br />
Greek: hazel bush (C. avellana)<br />
from the Americas<br />
latin for hazel nut or wood<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: cotoneum (quince) , aster (superficial resemblance to something)<br />
sharply pointed leaves<br />
leaves abruptly tipped with a sharp point<br />
horizontal<br />
Greek: hawthorn<br />
cock's spur<br />
cock's spur unarmed<br />
softly hairy<br />
the appearance of Pear, heart shaped<br />
Greek: eu (good) and kommi (gum)<br />
Like Ulmus<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: beech tree (F. sylvatica)<br />
large flowered<br />
forest loving, grows in woods<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: ash tree (F. excelsior)<br />
with four angles<br />
Ancient Japanese: gin-kyo(silver apricot)<br />
two lobed<br />
John Gottlieb Gleditch, Director of Berlin Botanic Garden (1700's)<br />
three thorned, unarmed<br />
Greek: gymnos (naked) and klados (branch)<br />
Dioecious, male and female flowers on different trees<br />
Rev. Stephen Hales, curate of Teddington, England (1700's)<br />
growing on mountains<br />
Greek<br />
from Virginia<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: evergreen holm oak (leaves resemble)<br />
whorled<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: jovis (of Jupiter) and glans (acorn)<br />
ash colored<br />
black<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: Juniper tree<br />
from China<br />
Joseph Gottlieb Koelreuter, pioneer in plant hybridization (1700's)<br />
flowers in panicles<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: common larch<br />
deciduous<br />
Resembles larch<br />
Greek: leirion (lily) and dendron (tree)<br />
tulip bearing<br />
Richard Maack, Russian naturalist, explorer in E. Asia (1800's)<br />
from Amur River region, Manchuria<br />
Pierre Magnol, director of Montpellier Botanic Garden in France (1600's, 1700's)<br />
Chevalier Etienne Soulange-Bodin, French horticulturist (late 1700's, early 1800's<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: apple<br />
domesticated, used in gardens<br />
Charles Sprague Sargent, American Botanist, First Director of Arnold Arboretum (late 1800's, early<br />
Greek: meta (after, or changed in nature) and Sequoia<br />
resembles Glyptostrobus (Chinese Cypress)
<strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Name</strong><br />
<strong>Meaning</strong>/<strong>Origin</strong><br />
Morus<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: mulberry<br />
rubra<br />
red<br />
Nyssa<br />
Nysa or Nyssa, a water nymph<br />
sylvatica<br />
forest loving, grows in woods<br />
Ostrya<br />
Greek: ostrys (hop-hornbeam tree)<br />
virginiana<br />
from Virginia<br />
Parrotia F.W. Parrot, Russian naturalist, climbed Mt. Ararat in 1834<br />
persica<br />
from Persia (Iran)<br />
Picea<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: pitch pine, now used for spruce<br />
abies<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: Fir (from abire, to rise)<br />
pungens glauca<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: piercing, sharp pointed, blue-grey<br />
Pinus<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: Stone pine (P. pinea)<br />
cembra<br />
Italian: Stone pine<br />
mugo<br />
Tyrolese: name for P. mugo<br />
nigra<br />
black<br />
ponderosa<br />
heavy, weighty<br />
resinosa<br />
having resin<br />
strobus<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: name for incense bearing tree<br />
sylvestris<br />
forest loving, grows in woods<br />
Populus<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: poplar tree<br />
deltoides<br />
triangular<br />
tremuloides<br />
like Populas tremula in appearance<br />
Prunus<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: cherry tree<br />
americana<br />
from the Americas<br />
triloba<br />
three lobes<br />
virginiana<br />
from Virginia<br />
Pseudotsuga<br />
False Tsuga (hemlock)<br />
menziesii<br />
Archibald Menzies, Scottish Naval Doctor, sailed with Vancouver on 1790 expedition to NW Pacific<br />
Pyrus<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: pear<br />
calleryana<br />
J.M. Callery, Roman Catholic missionary, Botanist in China and Korea (1800's)<br />
Quercus<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: oak<br />
acutissima<br />
very acutely pointed<br />
alba<br />
white<br />
bicolor<br />
two colors<br />
coccinea<br />
scarlet<br />
imbricaria<br />
overlapping, like shingles on a roof<br />
lyrata<br />
lyre-shaped<br />
macrocarpa<br />
with large fruits<br />
muehlenbergii<br />
Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg, American Lutheran minister, amateur botanist (late 1700's)<br />
palustris<br />
growing in marshes, or wet places<br />
robur<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: hard wood<br />
rubra<br />
red<br />
shumardii Benjamin Franklin Shumard, State Geologist of Texas 1860<br />
velutina<br />
velvety<br />
Rhododendron<br />
Greek: rhodon (rose) and dendron (tree)<br />
Rhus<br />
Greek: common name for species of Sumac<br />
glabra<br />
smooth, without hairs<br />
typhina<br />
resembles Typha (reed-mace)<br />
Rosa<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: rose<br />
carolina<br />
from N. or S. Carolina<br />
Salix<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: willow<br />
caprea<br />
favored by goats<br />
discolor<br />
of two colors<br />
Sambucus<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: this group of plants<br />
canadensis<br />
from Canada<br />
Sassafras<br />
Native American<br />
albidum<br />
whitish
<strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Name</strong><br />
Taxodium<br />
distichum<br />
Taxus<br />
cuspidata<br />
media<br />
Thuja<br />
koraiensis<br />
occidentalis<br />
Tilia<br />
americana<br />
cordata<br />
euchlora<br />
tomentosa<br />
Tsuga<br />
canadensis<br />
Ulmus<br />
parvifolia<br />
Viburnum<br />
dentatum<br />
lantana<br />
opulus<br />
prunifolium<br />
trilobum<br />
<strong>Meaning</strong>/<strong>Origin</strong><br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: taxus (yew) and Greek: eidios (resemblance)<br />
in two parallel ranks<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: yew<br />
bearing a stiff point<br />
intermediate between two types<br />
Greek: thuia (resin bearing tree)<br />
from Korea<br />
from the Occident/Western world<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: linden tree<br />
from the Americas<br />
heart shaped<br />
Greek: eu (good) and chloros (green)<br />
covered with short and woolly or matted hairs<br />
Japanese: hemlock<br />
from Canada<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: Elm<br />
small leaved<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: one species of Viburnum<br />
toothed<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: Viburnum<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>: name for type of maple<br />
leaves like those of Prunus<br />
three lobes
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