nr ↓ | name ↓ | Name Source ↓ |
372 | Palma | Named probably for the capital of Mallorca, the largest of the Balearic islands in the Mediterranean |
458 | Hercynia | This is the Latin name for the mountainous forests in Germany from the upper part of the Rhine to th |
637 | Chrysothemis | Named for the daughter of Agamemnon and Klytaemnestra in Greek mythology {see planets (911) and (1 |
759 | Vinifera | Named by the discoverer after the vine from which his ancestors made a living. (H 76) |
943 | Begonia | Named after a genus of tropical herbs having asymmetrical leaves and being widely cultivated as orna |
957 | Camelia | Named for a genus of shrubs or trees of the tea family, especially a ornamental greenhouse shrub wit |
968 | Petunia | Named for a genus of tropical American herbs of the nightshade family with funnel-shaped corollas. ( |
970 | Primula | Named for a genus of perennial herbs with large tufted basal leaves and showy variously colored flow |
973 | Aralia | Named after a widely cultivated ornamental climbing or prostrate or sometimes shrubby Eurasian vine |
1054 | Forsytia | Named after a genus of ornamental shrubs of the olive family with opposite leaves and yellow bell-sh |
1056 | Azalea | Named after a genus of rhododendrons with funnel-shaped corollas and usually deciduous leaves includ |
1060 | Magnolia | Named after a genus of North American and Asian shrubs and trees with entire evergreen or deciduous |
1061 | Paeonia | Named after a flower. (H 101) See also the remark to planet (1054). |
1063 | Aquilegia | Named after a genus of plants of the buttercup family with irregular showy spurred flowers. The Engl |
1064 | Aethusa | Named after a plant of the carrot family. The fool’s parsley belongs to the Aethusa family. (H 101) |
1066 | Lobelia | Named for a genus of widely distributed herbaceous plants cultivated for their terminal clusters of |
1067 | Lunaria | Named after any of a genus of European plants of the mustard family with cordate leaves and broad si |
1070 | Tunica | Named after one of numerous cultivated usually double-flowered pinks derived from the common gilly-f |
1072 | Malva | Named after any of a genus of herbs with palmately lobed or dissected leaves, usually showy flowers, |
1076 | Viola | Named after the family of garden hybrids with solitary white, yellow, or purple often variegated flo |
1077 | Campanula | Named after the bellflower. (H 102) See also the remark to planet (1054). |
1078 | Mentha | Named after a planet of the mint family. (H 102) See also the remark to planet (1054). A. Patry, Ni |
1079 | Mimosa | Named after a genus of leguminous trees, shrubs, and herbs of tropical and warm regions with usually |
1080 | Orchis | Named after a flower of a genus with fleshy roots and a spurred lip. (H 102) See also the remark to |
1081 | Reseda | Named after a genus of Old World herbs of the mignonette family having racemose flowers with cleft p |
1082 | Pirola | Named after a member of the plant family of flowering herbs, mostly evergreen. (H 102) See also the |
1083 | Salvia | Named after a largely and widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs of the mint family having a tw |
1085 | Amaryllis | Named after a genus of bulbous African herbs with showy umbellate flowers. (H 102) See also the rema |
1087 | Arabis | Named after a large genus of herbs from the mustard family. (H 102) See also the remark to planet ( |
1091 | Spiraea | Named after a genus of shrubs of the rose family with small perfect white or pink flowers in dense r |
1092 | Lilium | Named after a genus of erect perennial leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs that are native to the northern h |
1095 | Tulipa | Named after a genus of Eurasian bulbous herbs of the lily family that have linear or broadely lanceo |
1097 | Vicia | Named after a flower of the Papilionaceae family. The English name of the flower is vetch. (H 103) S |
1100 | Arnica | Named after a genus of composite herbs including some with bright yellow ray flowers. (H 103) See al |
1101 | Clematis | Named after a vine or herb of the buttercup family having three leaflets on each leaf and usually wh |
1103 | Sequoia | Named by the discoverer for the Sequoia National Park where he spent vacations. The park is named af |
1104 | Syringa | Named after a genus of ornamental shrubs of the saxifrage family of which several are widely known i |
1105 | Fragaria | Named after a genus of the rose family that is technically an enlarged pulpy receptacle bearing nume |
1218 | Aster | Named after various chiefly fall-blooming leafy-stemmed composite herbs with often showy heads conta |
1220 | Crocus | Named for a genus of herbs of the iris family having solitary long-tubed flowers and slender linear |
1227 | Geranium | Named after a genus of plants having regular flowers without spurs and with glands that alternate wi |
1228 | Scabiosa | Named after a genus of herbs of the teasel family with terminal flower heads subtended by a leafy in |
1229 | Tilia | Named after a plant (limetree, basswood) from the Tiliaceae family. (H 113) See also the citation fo |
1230 | Riceia | Named in honor of Hugh Rice, amateur astronomer of New York and director of the Museum of Natural Sc |
1231 | Auricula | Named after the yellow flowered Alpine primrose. (H 113) See also the citation for planet (1234). |
1232 | Cortusa | Named after a plant of the primrose family. (H 114) See also the citation for planet (1234)). |
1233 | Kobresia | Kobresia is the name of a grass. (I. van Houten-Groeneveld) See also the citation for planet (1234) |
1234 | Elyna | This is a name of a plant. The first letters of planets (1227) through (1234) form the name G. Str |
1250 | Galanthus | Named after a flower, the snowdrop. (H 115) |
1251 | Hedera | Named after a plant of the ivy family. (H 115) |
1270 | Datura | Named for a genus of widely distributed strong-scented herbs, shrubs, or trees of the nightshade fam |
1318 | Nerina | Named after a genus of south African bulbous herbs from the amaryllidaceae family. (H 120) |
1319 | Disa | Named for a large genus of tropical African terrestrial orchids, perhaps the most showy of all orchi |
3468 | Urgenta | This minor planet is named for a popular, wholesome type of potato, perhaps alluding to the likely f |
6786 | Doudantsutsuji | Doudantsutsuji is the Japanese name for Enkianthus perulatus, an ericaceous deciduous shrub. |
8652 | Acacia | Named for Acacia, belonging to the family Mimosaceae. Acacia mearnsii (mimosa) is a s |
8656 | Cupressus | Named for Cupressus, belonging to the family Cupressaceae. Cupressus macrocarpia (Mon |
8850 | Bignonia | Named for Bignoniaceae, the catalpa family, with about 100 genera and 700 species with tubular flowe |
9054 | Hippocastanum | Named for Hippocastanaceae, the horse-chestnut family, with only two genera and 15 species. Aesc |
12435 | Sudachi | Sudachi (Citrus sudachi) is a small, round, green citrus fruit that is a specialty of Tokushima pref |
13116 | Hortensia | Hortensia is the name of a flower (Hydrangea hortensia) introduced to France by the astronomer Le Ge |
13606 | Bean | During the Apollo 12 mission to Oceanus Procellarum Alan LaVerne Bean (b. 1932) became the fourth pe |
13606 | Bean | During the Apollo 12 mission to Oceanus Procellarum Alan LaVerne Bean (b. 1932) became the fourth pe |
19019 | Sunflower | The sunflower, the state flower of Kansas, always faces the sun. Its seeds provide food and oil for |
22494 | Trillium | Since 1937, the White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) has been the official flower of Canada |
88705 | Potato | The United Nations has declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato. First domesticated in th |
151997 | Bauhinia | Bauhinia blakeana is the Hong Kong City Flower. |
189188 | Floraliën | The Gentse Floraliën (Floralies of Ghent) is a world-famous flower exhibition held in Ghent ( |