Re: "Named" perennials
> Generally speaking, when a plant is "named", e.g. Phlox paniculata
> 'Mt. Fuji', that name may only be properly applied to plants that are
> vegetatively propagated from that particular plant, No matter how
> much the offspring may look like the parent plant, they cannot
> properly bear that name.
Some taxonomists have accepted the practice of placing the cultivar name
in brackets instead of single quotes when referring to non-vegetatively
propagated plants. For example, seedlings from a grouping of Coreopsis
alpina 'Alba' would actually be labeled as Coreopsis alpina [Alba].
Chris
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