Taraxacum spp is the Latin name for which genus of common wild garden plant?
Taraxacum officinale recombination between homologous chromosomes. "Taraxacum officinale" has many English common names (of which some are no longer in use), including blowball, lion's-tooth, cankerwort, milk-witch, yellow-gowan, Irish daisy, monks-head, priest's-crown and puff-ball; other common names include, faceclock, pee-a-bed, wet-a-bed, swine's snout, white endive, and wild endive. Carl Linnaeus named the species "Leontodon taraxacum" in 1753. The current genus name "Taraxacum" derives possibly from the Arabic "Tharakhchakon", or from the Greek "Tarraxos". The common name "dandelion" comes from the French "dent de lion", or "lion's tooth", in reference to the plant's jagged-edged leaves. "Taraxacum officinale" is native to Europe and Asia, and
Nasturtium (genus) Nasturtium (genus) Nasturtium () is a genus of seven plant species in the family Brassicaceae (cabbage family), best known for the edible watercresses "Nasturtium microphyllum" ("Rorippa microphylla") and "Nasturtium officinale" ("R. nasturtium-aquaticum"). "Nasturtium" was previously synonymised with "Rorippa", but molecular evidence supports its maintenance as a distinct genus more closely related to "Cardamine" than to "Rorippa" "sensu stricto" (Al-Shehbaz & Price, 1998; Al-Shehbaz, Beilstein & Kellogg, 2006). Watercress or yellowcress is a common name for plants in this genus. These plants are related to garden cress and mustard, noteworthy for a peppery, tangy (pungent) flavor. The name Nasturtium comes from