Whose idea was the botanical name system used to classify plants?
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Carl Linnaeus developed the binomial naming system used for plants and animals. He set it out in the 18th century, most famously in Species Plantarum (1753).
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The botanical naming system most people use today comes from Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist. In Species Plantarum, published in 1753, he standardized the use of two-part Latin names for plants: genus and species. That approach became the foundation of modern biological classification and is still used worldwide. Linnaeus also helped organize plant families and made taxonomy a practical scientific system rather than a loose descriptive tradition.
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