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If who have ever struggled with the Latin Names of plants the following plant dictionary may help you to understand, and maybe eventually remember what all those names mean!
Acaulis
Acre
Aculeatum/us
Aculeatus
Aestivalis
Aethiopis
Aflatunense
Afoliata
Agapanthus
Airoides
Alata
Alatum/us
Albidium
Albidus
Albopilosum
Alhuim
Aloe
Alpicola
Alpinia

Alysum
Amabile
Amara
Amethystea
Amethystina
Amoena
Amplexicaulis
Amurensis

Angustitolia
 
Aniurensis
Apiana
Apifera
Aquatica
Aquilegia
Arachnoideum
Arachrioidea
Arborescens
Archonto
Arenanus
Argenta
Argentea/eum
Arnica
Arundinacea
Arvensis
Aster
Atrata
Atropa

Atropurpureum
Aueuparia
Aurantiaca/ium
Aureus
Australis
Baccans
Baccata
Baccifer
Badium
Bannaticus
Barbinerve
Batatas

Banksia

Belladonna
Bellis
Bellum
Biestor
Blandus
Blepharophylla
Bombyciferum
Bonariensis
Boreale
Brachyandras
Bromeliaefolius
Caerulea
Caerulesceus
Caeruleum

Caesia
Caespitosa
Calamintha
Calceolaria
Caliginosa
Callisteman
Calothyrsus
Calycinum
Cambrica
Campanuleria
Campsetre
Candatus
Candicle
Canesceus
Cannabinum
Cantabricus
Capillata
Capitata
Cardinale
Cardiospernum
Cardunculus
Carinatus
Carinthica
Carneum
Carneus
Carthuscanorum
Caspium
Catananche
Cataria
Caudicans
Caulesceus
Cephalonica

Ceratotheca
Cernuum
Chaerophylium
Chamaeiris
Chilensis
Chimonanthus
Chinodoxa
Chionantha
Chloranthus
Chrysantha
Chrysanthum
Chrysographes
Chungensis
Ciliata
Cimicifuga
Cineraria/rea/um
Circinatum
Cisplatino

Cita
Citrina
Clematidea
Clianthus
Clivorum
Coccifera
Coccinea
Coccineus
Codonopsis
Coelestis
Coeli- rose
Columbine
Compositus
Confertus
Controversa
Coralloides
Cordenta
Corniculatus
Cornigera
Coronarium
Coryclalis
Cosmos
Coum
Crassifolia
Crassifolium
Crassula
Crepitans
Crimum
Crispuo
Croceum
Cruenta
Curvula
Cyananthus
Dahurica

Damascena
Dauriaum
Davurica

Dealbata
Decepetale
Decurrens
Dens - canis
Diocolour
Diphyllum
Diplostiphioides

Dipterocarpum
Divaricata
Dodecatheon
Dolichantha
Domestica
Dracaena
Dracocephalum
Dracunculus
Dulcis
Eburneum
Ecalcarata
Echinocephalum/Echinops
Edulis/Eelule
Elata
Elaterium
Elatior
Enseta
Ensifolia
Eragrostis
Eremurus
Erianthus
Erubescens
Erythrina
Erythropoda
Eucomis
Evodia
Exceise
Excorticata
Eximia
Eximium
Falcata
Falvum
Fastuosa/sum
Fernlaefolia
Ferrugineum
Fertilis
Figuratus
Filifolia
Filipes
Fistulosa/sum
Flavidus
Flavum
Flore - pleus
Floribunda
Florida
Floridus
Flos - cuculi
Flos - Jovis
Formosa
Formosa
Formosus
Fraxinoides
Friderici - Guileimi

Fritillaria
Frutescens
Fruticans
Fruticosum
Fuckel
Fulgida
Fullonum
Fusca
Fusiformis
Gamophylla
Garganica
Geniculata
Gentianoides
Gigas
Gladiolus

Glutinosa
Grainopolitanus
Granulata
Graveolens
Griseum
Gruinum
Guttatus
Gymnocladus
Haematodes
Hamacanthus
Hastata
Hedeoma
Hederacea
Heliopsis
Heliphilia
Helodoxa
Hiemalis
Hierocholë
Hircinum
Hirta
Hisuta
Horridula
Hortensis
Humifusa
Humilis
Hyemalis
Hyrcanium
Hystrix
Iaciniatum
Ignea
Ilex
Impatiens
Imperialis
Implexa
Incana
Incarnata
Innoxia
Intaminatum
Ixia
 
Ixioides
Ixiolirion
Jubatum
Jucunda
Kiusianus

Laciniata
Laciniata
Lacryma - jobi
Ladamiter
Laetiflorus
Laevigatum
Lagurus
Lampranthus
Lanata
Lanata/tus
Lanigera/rum
Lasianthos
Lasiocarpum
Lateritium
Latispimus
Lebomboensis

Lenatum
Lencamtha
Leonotis
Leontopdium
Leonurus
Leprosa
Leptolepis
Leucotriche
Libanotiam
Librocedrus
Lignosus
Linearis
Liptopus
Lithops
Littoralis
Longissima
Lucidum
Ludoviciana
Lupulus
Lutea/eo
Luteola
Lutescens
Macranthus
Macrocarpa
Macrocephala
Macrorrhizum
Maculata
Magnifica
Majalis
Majus
Manicata
Marginata
Marianum
Maxima
Maxima
Megalcintha
Meleagris
Mellifera
Meriduonalis
Micromusei
Microphylla
Militoris
Millefolium
Mitis
Mollis
Mucronata
Mucronulatum
Multiradiatum
Muralis
Muscupula
Muticum
Myrrhidifolia
Namus
Napifolia
Nemorosa
Neriifolia
Nerrosum
Nervosa
Nevadensis
Nigra
Niphophila
Nitens
Nivea
Nobilis
Non - scripta
Nummularium
Obesa
Obscura
Occidentalis
Ochrolenca
Ochroleuce
Oculata
Odcratissimus
Oderata
Ornata
Ornithogalum
Orontium
Pallida
Pallidiflora
Palmatum
Palustris
Panax
Panderosa
Papurifera
Paradisace
Paradoxa
Pardaliandus

Parnassica
Parviflora
Pateus
Patula
Pauciflora
Pectinata
Pendula
Peregrinum
Perennis
Perichymeruim

Persicifolia
Petraea
Petroeus
Phaeum
Phoenicea
Physocarpa

Picea
Pictum
Pilosum
Pinifolia
Plaricaus
Pleiacantha
Plicatus
Ploygala
Podagrica
Podophyllum
Polygonum
Polypetula
Polyphyllium
Polystachyus
Pomitera
Pontica
Portenschlagiana

Potentilla
Praecox
Prarissuria
Pratense
Pratensis
Prenanthes
Primula
Princeps
Procera
Prominens
Psoralea
Pterocarpum
Pudica
Pulchelleum
Pulcherima
Pulcherrimum
Pulverulenta
Pulverulente
Pumila
Punctata
Purpusii

Pycrostachya
Quercifolia
Quinquefolius
Quitoense
Radians
Recta
Rediviva
Redolens
Regale
Regalis
Regia
Reniforme
Reticula
Retusuis
Rhododenron
Rhoduchiron
Rivale
Rivularis
Robur
Robus
Robustum
Robustus
Rosa - sinenses
Rotundifolium
Rubida
Rubra
Rubrifolia
Rugosa
Rumelica

Rupestre
Rupestris
Rupicola
Rupifragum
Russicum
Sagittifolia
Saliceria
Saliguus
Sanguineum
Sapientum
Satira
Sativum
Sativus
Saxatile/lis
Saxonum
Scaevola
Scandeus/dous
Sceptrum
Secta
Secundiflora

Segentum
Sempervivum
Sempevivens
Senecio
Seoparium
Septemfida
Serica
Sericea
Sericofera
Serotinus
Sesquipedalis
Sessilifolia
Setiechinopsis
Setigerum
Siculum
Siliquastrum
Simplex
Sinica
Solida
Speciosa
Speciosoissimum
Speculum
Speetabilis
Sphacelata
Sphaeriaus
Sphaeroeephalus
Spontanea
Spurium
Statgyraus
Staus
Stenocephala
Stenophylnis
Stoechas

Straitum
Strumosa
Styraciflua
Suaveoleus/lens
Subcarnosus
Suberosa
Subsessilis
Subulata
Subulatum
Sylvatica
Sylvestis/tris
Syriaca
Tabuliformis
Tangutica
Tangutica
Tartarice
Tectonum

Tenacissima
Tennifolium
Tenuicaulis
Tenuior
Tenuisecta
Testacea
Testudinaria
Textori
Thermopsis
Thianshanicum

Tiliaceus
Tinctoria
Tinctorum
Tingitanus
Tomentosa
Torminalis
Torquatus
Tortuosum
Torulosa
Trachycarpus
Triacanthus
Trichophyllus
Tricuspidata
Triloba
Trimestris
Tristis
Truncatum
Uliginosum
Ulmoides
Umguis - cati
Uncinata
Uncinia
Urbanum
Ursina
Usitatissimum
Valdiviensis
Valida
Venusta
Verna
Versicolor/siecolour
Versieolor
Verticillata
Verticillatum
Verus
Vesca
Vevis
Villosum
Viminalis
Violaceum
Virens
Viride
Viridiflora
Viridifolia
Vitalba
Viticella
Vitifolium
Vitis-idaea
Vividiflora
Vividus
Vulgaris
Weitterleuchten
Xanthina
Xanthoceras
Xernthemum
Yunnanensis
Zaluzianskya
Zebrina
 
Without a stem
Bitter
Prickly
Prickly
Of the summer time
Ethiopian
From aflatum in Central Asia
Without leaves
Love flower
like hair grass
Winged
Winged
Whitish
Whitish
With white hairs
Garlic (ancient Latin)
Alloeh, the Arabic name
Dweller in high mountains
Named after Prospero Alpino a 16th century botanist
Without madness (once used as a cure)
Lovely
Bitter
Amethyst
Violet - coloured
Pleasant, delightful
Stem-clasping
From the Amur region of north - east China
Narrow - leaved
From the Amur River (between China and Russia)
Pertaining to bees
Bee - bearing
Growing near water
Eagle (from the shape of the petals)
Like a Spider's Web
Like a generally untidy, spider's web
Tree - like
Majestic
Growing in sandy places
Silvery
Silvery
Lambskin, from the texture of the leaves
Reed-like
Growing in cultivated fields
Star
Blackened
After one of the 3 fates, who cut the thread of life
Deep purple
Bird-catcher
Orange coloured
Golden
Southern
Berried
Berry - like
Berry - bearing
Chestnut brown
From Banat, Romania
With bearded neins
From the specific epither for the Sweet Potato
In honour of Sir Joseph Banks who travelled with Captain Cook
Pretty lady
Pretty
Beautiful
Two - coloured
Pleasing
With leaves fringed like eyelashes
silk-bearing
From Buenos Aires
Northern
With short stamens
Pineapple - leaves
Dark Blue
Becoming blue
Blue - the deep blue of a midday mediterranean sky
Lavender - Blue
Growing in dense clumps
Beautiful + mint
A slipper
Of misty places
Beauty + stamen
Beautiful thyrse
With a conspicuous calyx
Welsh
Bell - shaped
Of the fields
Having a tail
Shining White
Greyish
Cannabis - like
From Cantabria in Northern Spain
Furnished with fine hairs
Growing in a dense head
Scarlet
Heart - seed
Small, thistle - like
Having a keel
From Carinthia in Austria
Flesh - coloured
Flesh - coloured
Of the Cartusian Monks
From the shores of the Caspian Sea
A strong incentive
Pertaining to cats
Whitish
With a stem
From the island of Keftalima (Cephalonia) in the Ionian Sea
Horn + case (horned fruit)
Nodding
Pleasing foliage
Dwarf iris
From Chile
Winter flower
Snow + glory
Having snow - white flowers
With green flowers
With golden flowers
With golden flowers
Lined with gold
From Chungking, Szechwan
Fringed with hairs
Bug + drive away
Ash - coloured
Coiled
From the area of the River Plate, South America
moving with speed
Lemon - coloured
Clematis like
Glory + flower
Of the hills
Berry - bearing
Scarlet
Scarlet
Like a bell
Sky - blue
Rose of heaven
Latin for pigeon, Columba
Compound
Crowded
Doubtful, Contreversial
Coral - like
Heart - shaped
With small horns
Horn - bearing
Used for gardands
Lark
Beautiful
Of Cos, the Greek island (lettuce)
Thick - leaved
Thick - leaved
Thick - reffering to the leaves
Crackling
Lily
Finely waved
Deep saffron yellow
Blood - coloured, gory
Weeping or curved
With blue flowers
From Dahuria, region of South East Siberia + North East Mongolia
From Damascus
A region of Siberia
From Davuria, a region of South East Siberia
Covered with opaque white powder
With 10 petals
Running down the stems
dog's tooth
Two - coloured
Having two leaves
Resembling the plant Diplostephium
with two-winged fruit
Spreading, or growing in a struggling manner
12 Gods
Long - flowered
Frequently used as a houseplant
Female dragon
Dragon + head
Little dragon
Sweet
Ivory - white
spurless
Hedgehog like
Edible
Tall
Squirter
taller
Sword - shaped
With sword - shaped leaves
Love + grass
Solitary tail
Wool + flower
Blushing
Red
Having a red stem
Beautiful headed
Sweet scent
Sublime
Stripped of bark
Out of the ordinary
Distinguished
Falcate i.e. scythe or sickle - shaped
Yellow
Proud
With fennel - like leaves
Rust - coloured
Fruitful
Shaped
With thread - like leaves
With thread - like stalks
Hollow like a pipe
Yellowish
Nearly pure yellow
Double flowers
Flowering freely
free-flowering
Flowery
Cuckoo - flower
Jove's flower
Splendid
Beautiful
Beautiful
Like an ash
Frederick William, King of Prussia, an early patron of Botany
A dice - box
Shrubby
Shrubby
Shrubby
Torch
Shining. Glistening
Used by the Fullers
Dusky
Spindle-shaped
Joined leaves
From Monte Gargano in southern Italy
bent sharply like a knee
Gentian-like
Giant
Name used by Pliny diminutive of gladius, sword
Sticky
From Grenoble
With grain - like tubercles
Heavily scented
Grey
Crane - like
Spotted = punctata
Naked branch
Blood - red
Hooked - spine
Spear-shaped
Sweet smell
Ivy - like
Sun - like
Sun lover
Glory of the Marsh
Winter - flowering
Holy + grass
Smelling of goats
hairy
Hairy
Somewhat prickly
Grown in gardens
Ground - covering
Low - growing
Flowering in winter
From the Caspian Sea
Porcupin
incised
Fiery - red
The latin for Holm Oak
Impatient
Very noble
Tangled
Quite Grey
Flesh - coloured
Harmless
Unsullied, untarnished
The mane of a plant noted for the variability of its colour
Ixia - like
Ixia + lily
Crested
Agreeable, pleasing
Of Kyuslui, a large southern island of Japan
Torn into narrow divisions - lacerated
Deeply - cut
Job's tears
Laudanum, myrrh bearing
Bright - flowered
Smooth
Hare + tail
Shining flower
woolly
Woolly
Woolly
Woolly - flowered
Woolly-fruited
Brick - red
With wide thorns
From the Lebombo Hills on the border of Mazambique + Swaziland
Woolly
White - Flowered
Men's ear
Lion's foot
Like a lion's tail
Having a whitish or mealy surface
Thin - scarred
White - haired
Of Mount Lebanon
Incense + cedar
Woody
Narrow, with sides nearly parallel
Thin - stalked
Stane - like
Shore - growing
Longest
Bright, shining
Of Louisiana
little work
Yellow
Yellowish
Yellowish
Large - flowered
Large - fruited
Big - headed
With large roots
Spotted
Great, splendid, magnificent
May - flowering
Bigger
With long sleeves
Margined
St. Mary's
Largest
Maximum
Large flowered
Spotted like the guinea fowl
Honey - bearing
Of noon
Little banana
Small-leaved
Like a soldier
With a thousand leaves
Gentle, without spines
Soft
Pointed
Having a short, hard point
With many rays
Growing on walls
Fly - catching
Blunt
With sweet Cicely - like leaves
Dwarf
Turnip - leaved
Growing in Woods
Oleander - leaved
With conspicuous nerves
With conspicuous veins
From the Siera Nevada in Southern Spain
Black
Snow lover
Shining flower
snow-white
Excellent
Without markings
Resembling a coin
Fat
Dark, dusky
Western
Yellowish - white
yellowish - white
With an eye
Very Fragrant
Fragrant
Showy
Bird + milk
Golden club
Pale
Pale - flowered
Having 5 lobes (like a human palm)
Marsh - loving
Panacea, all - healing
heavy
Paper - bearing
Belonging to Paradise
Contrary to expectation
Ancient greek name of a plant used to poison leopards
Of Mount Parnassus; Greece
Small - flowered
Spreading
Spreading
Small flowered
Cerub - like
Hanging
Exotic
Perennial
From the Greek name Perihlymeron for a honeysuckle
Peach - leaved
Of rocky places
Rock - loving
Dusky
Bright Scarlet
Bladder fruit (once used to adulterate Semia)
pitch
Painted
Pilose, covered with long soft hairs
With leaves like a pine
Yellowish
With many thorns
Pleated
Much milk
Gout in the feet
Foot + leaf
Many knee - joints
With many petals
many-leaved
Many - spiked
Apple - bearing
From the south shore of the Black Sea
Named after Portenschlag - Ledermayer - Franz (1772 - 1822) botanist
Powerful
Precocious - early flowering
Very crooked, mis - shapen
of the meadows
Of the meadows
Drooping Flower
Diminutive of primus, first
Most distinguished
Tall
Prominent
Warted
With winged fruit
Bashful
Pretty
Most beautiful
The prettiest
Powdered as with dust
Powdered as with dust
Dwarf
Spotted
Named after a pair of German plant collectors Purpus
Dense - spiked
Oak - leaved
Five - leaved
From Quito, Capital of Ecudor
Radiating outwards
Upright
Brought back to life
Heavily scented
Of outstanding merit, regal
Of outstanding merit
Royal
Kidney-shaped
Reticulated, netted
With a rounded tip
Rose + tree
Red - cloak
Growing by streams
Brook - loving
Oak - wood, strength
Strength
Strong in growth
Robust
Rose of China
With round leaves
Reddish
Red
Red - leaved
Wrinkled
From Rumilli, once part of the Ottoman Empire
Rock - loving
rock-loving
Dweller among rocks
Rock - breaking
Russian
Arrow - leaved
Willow - like
Willow - like
Blood - red
Of wise men
Cultivated
Cultivated
Cultivated
Found amoung rocks
of the rocks
From scaevus = left
Climbing
A sceptre
Cut
With a secund i.e. one - sided inflorescence
Of cornfields
To live forever
Evergreen
From Senex, Old man
Broom - like
With 7 cuts
Silky
silky
silk - bearing
Late in flowering
one and one half feet long
With sessile, i.e. stalkless leaves
Bristly + Echinopsis
Bristle - bearing
Of Sicily
Pod - bearing
Unbranched
Chinese
Dense
Showy
Showiest
Looking-glass
Showy
Torch - like
Spherical
Round - headed
Voluntitary
False
Revolving
Erect, upright
Narrow + head
Narrow - leaved
From the Stoeclades, now the Iles d'Hyères
Striped
Having cushion - like swellings
Flowing with gum
Sweet scented
Rather fleshy
Cork - barked
Almost Stalkless
Owl - shaped
Owl - shaped
Of a wood
Growing in woods
Syrian
Flat - topped
Belonging to Tangent, region of Tibet
From Kansu, North West China
Tartar land around the Lower Danube
of the roofs of the houses (invented name)
Strongest
Slender - leaved
Slender - stemmed
Slender
Finely cut
Brick - coloured
like a tortoise shell
Weaver's
lupin-like
From the TienShan - heavenly mountain range in central Asia
Linden - like
Used in dyeing
Of Dyers
From Tangier
Downy
Effective against colic
With a collar
Tortuous
Thickened at intervals
rough fruit
3 - spined
With hairy leaves
Three - pointed
Three - lobed
Of 3 months
Sad, dull - coloured
Truncated
of wet places
Elm - like
With cat's claws
the hooked
from the Latin for hook (uncus)
Belonging to towns
Like a bear
Most useful
From Valdinia, Chile
Strong, well - developed
Handsome
Of the spring
Variously coloured
Variously coloured
Whorled
Whorled
Of the spring
Thin
Spring - flowering
Covered with soft hairs
Long slender shoots
Violet - coloured
Green
Green
Green - flowered
Green-leaved
White vine
Small vine
Vine - leaved
Vine of Mount Ida
Green - flowered
Green
Common
Sheet lightning
Yellow
Yellow + horn
Dry flower
From Yunnan, West China
after Adam Zaluzinasky von Zaluzian
Zebra - striped