
The father of modern taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus (a.k.a. Carl von Linné), would name “unpleasant” species after associates he didn’t care for; the noxious weed Siegesbeckia, for example, is named after the German botanist Johann Siegesbeck.
The father of modern taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus (a.k.a. Carl von Linné), would name “unpleasant” species after associates he didn’t care for; the noxious weed Siegesbeckia, for example, is named after the German botanist Johann Siegesbeck.