Yes but using the botanical names across the gardening world does tell you what the plant is never mind where you are. The "latin" names do tell you about their growing/habitat situation. Local names just "locally" are often so different. As people have often said we need to know what the conditions we have in our gardens so that the plants we are trying to plant in them will be ok...so names of plants can often give us a glue.
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