Thank you everyone, I WILL try to get round to the room on Class Insecta. As Deb says above (cant seem to get up the courage to call you Bonehead, lol), the use of varieties as ingredients in the Soup was the topic of lively discussion when we used to do this for Canadian Gardening Magazine, now alas defunct. It was not something I considered including as a hard fast rule, because I assumed people would stick to Leading Common name or Genus and species, mostly, except when they havent much in their collection for a given letter, for example, I, U, X, Z V often gives us trouble..Let me say this... It does make it difficult to find particular plants when you go back over the Soup looking for that one you saw so many threads ago, and only remember it as a Columbine or an Aquilegia, for example. You may never find it in the Soup, and that is actually one of the main things the Soup is good for; nourishment in the way of garden planning... Ditto re taxonomic synonyms. If y'all do this again next year you might want to consider this, some thread, C for example, will get very large. And it becomes almost not an Alphabet soup at all but a mish mash of everything from Soup to, well, nuts. No offense, Dear Botany People out there. I love all your photographs, so lovely. So beautiful. So...
Balsamorhyza sagitatta (Balsam-root)
Begonia, this one I have lost the name for.
