Why did Hecate chastise the three witches in Macbeth? In To Kill a Mocking Bird, why does everybody call Jean Louise Finch Scout? Why does Hawthorne use the names of real Salem citizens in Young Goodman Brown? Why was Louisa May Alcott's mother called...
Gledhill [1:1–2] noted that “Common plant names present language at its richest and most imaginative.… Local variations in common names are numerous and this is perhaps a reflection of the importance of the plant in general conversation in the kitchen and in herbalism throughout the country...