The Latin or Scientific name of your plants often tells you a lot about the sort of plant it is and its uses.
| alata | Wing like | latifolius | Broad leaf | |
| alatus | Wing like | maximus | Large | |
| alba | White | maxima | Large | |
| albus | White | maximum | Large | |
| Allium | Onion of Garlic like | moschata | Musky | |
| annua | Annual | odorata | Scented | |
| annus | Annual | odoratum | Scented | |
| annuum | Annual | odoratus | Scented | |
| atropurpurea | Purple | officinale | Medicinal | |
| atrosanguinea | Blood red | officinalis | Medicinal | |
| barbatus | Barbed or bearded | oleracea | Edible | |
| Brassica | Cabbage like | pepo | Sun ripened | |
| campestris | Growing in fields | perennis | Living more than 2 years | |
| caudatus | With a tail | pratense | Growing in meadows | |
| chinesis | From China | purpurea | Purple | |
| cordifolia | Heart shaped | rapa | Turnip like | |
| cordatus | Heart shaped | retans | Creeping (runners) | |
| Curcurbita | Melon like | repens | Creeping (runners) | |
| dentara | Toothed | rubra | Red | |
| digitalis | Like fingers or a hand | sanguineum | Blood red | |
| edulis | Edible | sativa | Cultivated | |
| elegans | Elegant | sativum | Cultivated | |
| erecta | Upright | sativus | Cultivated | |
| erectus | Upright | sinatum | Wavy margined | |
| esculentum | Edible | sinuata | Wavy margined | |
| explodens | Tends to go bang | Solanum | Sun like and round | |
| frutescens | Shrub-like | spicata | Spiked | |
| gongylodes | Knob like | sylvestris | From the woods | |
| grandiflorum | Large flowers | tinctoria | Dyed | |
| grandiflorus | Large flowers | tinctorius | Dyed | |
| graveolens | Strong smelling | tinctus | Dyed | |
| Impatiens | Impatient | umbellata | Umbrella like | |
| japonica | From Japan | viridis | Green | |
| japoncum | From Japan | viridiflora | Green | |
| juncea | Rush like | vulgare | Common | |
| latifolium | Broad leafed | vulgaris | Common | |
| latifolia | Broad Leafed | |||
