To me (not to the landscape architects), I had an unusual question at work. To simplify a classification system (or for biologists and librarians, it's taxonomy) for tagging 80,000 plants to be sorted, delivered and planted around the bridge, vehicle/pedestrian ramps and by the road approaches we are constructing.

It is confirmed there will be just a couple magnolia trees sprinkled about the transportation system route, some hawthorn trees, lots of Douglas fir..

So simplified system was cobbled under 35 min. To de-Latinate, de-classify abit from precise scientific terms...to common names, size of seedling..

How do the landscape architects, botanists, etc. remember all those plant names. common vs. Latin terms for 1 plant.and more to the point, remember what all the different varieties look like? Maybe it's just remembering local/native stuff as priority over more "exotic" stuff?