The presidential election will be over tomorrow , and not a moment too presently for many Americans . So let ’s take a fracture from the rhetoric and revealing and think about President of the United States of the past and the plants they have had named for them . It ’s an impressive list of both presidents and plants .
Ever sinceCarl Linneaus(the Swedish botantst who acquire the binomial naming system for plants ) named Rudbeckia for his mentor and friendOlaus Rudbeck the Younger , plants have been named for multitude . First lady of the United States often have roses describe for them . Some of these roses , such as the Pat Nixon ascend , are hard to find these day . Lady Bird Johnson also has aTexas bluebonnet speciesnamed for her because of her packaging of wild flower and aboriginal plants . Eleanor Roosevelt has aniris , adaylilyand acrotonnamed in her award . Given her beloved of veg gardening , I trust Michelle Obama has a tomato plant named for her !
But the first ladies are not the only ones with plants named after them . Abraham Lincoln has four roses name for him , the most popular of which isMr . Lincoln , a tall , vibrant red ink turn out that is great for cutting and bouquets . Herbert Hoover does n’t normally get high marks as a president , but thePresident Hoover roseis considered one of the prettiest presidential plants , a beautiful orangish - red coral - pink hybrid Camellia sinensis . TheJohn F. Kennedy roseis a beautiful whitened tea rose and thePresident Eisenhower roseis a red heighten with a strong fragrance . George Washington roseis another red one as is theRonald Reagan prove , introduced by Jackson and Perkins .
Lady Bird Johnson, an early proponent of native gardening and environmentalism, had the Texas bluebonnet named for her.
Befitting a President of the United States who was also the author of the Declaration of Independence , Thomas Jefferson has an entire genus of plant named after him . Jeffersoniais a woodland plant , sometimes called twin leaf , that is native from Jefferson ’s native Virginia to Wisconsin . It ’s slightly uncommon and grows in deep shade . It ’s meet that Jefferson , who loved gardening as much as he loved his land , has an total genus named for him .
— Mary Lahr Schier
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Mr. Lincoln is considered a great rose for beginning rose growers.
Jeffersonia dubia
