Doh!

We spent most of today in Uppsala, an hour or so north of Stockholm. This quiet, bike-ridden university town is where Carl Linnaeus lived and worked; he's the scientist who came up with a system for naming organisms.
We visited his 18th century garden and home where I bent over to read a plant tag and was Homer Simpson for a moment. In my traveling mode, I half-expected to find the name written in Swedish and to have to guess what it might be in English, when the DOH moment hit: It doesn't matter which language you speak or read, the naming system is universal. The very REASON for coming here is because here is where confusion ends; here is where there is just one language. Carl Linnaeus gave each plant one Latin name for its genus, and another for its species. This name is its name, is its name, is its name.