Re: plant names

**f*@aol.com**

Peter,
thanks for the reality check. AP Style isn't quite the appropriate authority here, but be prepared to wrangle with editors on that point. 
Single quotes indicate the variety or cultivar (shorthand for "cultivated variety" name. Periods, commas, semicolons -- whatever punctuation follows the plant's cultivar name goes OUTside the single quotes. What's INside is the plant name and only the plant name. There is no plant named Coreopsis 'Moonbeam Period'. Period.
TM and R symbols never belong inside single quotes. The Codes that govern plant naming specify that a variety or cultivar name must be free and available to anyone. 
Alas, the rules for naming plants (International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, ICBN and ICNCP) are pretty much a gentleman's agreement with no legal standing. The USPTO really doesn't care, and too many breeders/inventors are cluttering up our books, magazines and catalogs with "nonsense" names, strings of alphanumeric code that are specifically barred by the ICBN and ICNCP.
JF

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Loewer <thewildgardener@earthlink.net>
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 2:04 pm
Subject: Re: [GWL] plant names

Gang: this was wrong from the start and not part of the International Rules 
dealing with cultivar names. Remember, the "Times" continues to be incorrect 
and breaking the rules dealing with genus and species always being in a 
different type face when included in text; if roman, the GS is italic and if 
the text is in italic, the GS is in roman. P.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Campbell" <dcamp911@gmail.com>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" 
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Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] plant names

> Here's what AP says and what I have always followed:
>
>    =- The period and the comma always go within the quotation marks.
>    -- The dash, the semicolon, the question mark and the exclamation point
> go within the quotation marks when they apply to the quoted matter only.
> They go outside when they apply to the whole sentence.
>
> Admittedly this is the 1980 edition and style may have changed. I 
> frequently
> see journalists begin a paragraph with a conjunction with a comma 
> following
> the conjunction.
>
> And, it drives me crazy.
>
> D
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Peter Loewer
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 1:31 PM
> To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
> Subject: Re: [GWL] plant names
>
> Denise: The culivar name is not in quotation marks but single quotes and 
> it
> never has an internal comma or any other punctuation. Peter
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Edible flowers" <edibleflowers1@aol.com>
> To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
> <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 1:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [GWL] plant names
>
>
>> You should write it Japanese maple or Acer japonicum "Bloodgood"
>> Genus is capitalized and species is lower case. Cultivar is in quotation
>> marks and first letter is capitalized.
>> Denise
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Feb 25, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
>> <hoosiergardener@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a question about common names. Think print, in newspapers and
>>> magazines, most of which have an aversion to too much fancy stuff in
>>> text:
>>>
>>> Should common names be capitalized, such as Lilac or Sweet Potato Vine? 
>>> I
>>> say no, because these are not proper names.
>>>
>>> Next, what if you are writing about Hosta or other plants, where the
>>> scientific and a common name are the same. Should all hosta, petunia,
>>> impatiens, etc., references as a common names be cap or cap and Italics
>>> or can they be lower case?
>>>
>>>
>>> jems
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