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Articles explore why scientific name changes occur, tracing Linnaean binomial history and the tension between stability and evolutionary classification. The newsletter also highlights the society’s President’s Platform, including funding approvals, education projects, website needs, volunteer opportunities, and key 2004 dates for chapters and meetings.","|  |  | Winter 2004\u003Cbr>Kelseya Volume 17 No. 2\u003Cbr>Kelseya\u003Cbr>Newsletter of the Montana Native Plant Society [www. umt.edu/mnps/](www. umt.edu/mnps/) |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n\nIllustration: Bonnie  \nAgropyron by Any Other Name is Still a Wheatgrass by Peter Lesica & Matt Lavin  \nseems that every few months  \nnow we are confronted with the unwanted news that members of our flora have “new” scientific names.“Which of the several scientific names should I be using” is a refrain often heard. Actually, it is often the case that many of these new names were proposed decades ago. Regardless, it wasn’t easy learning all those Linnaean binomials, and few appreciate having to repeat the effort. In our first plant taxonomy courses we were told that scientific names were essential because they were stable and universal, while common names varied depending on region and generation. These days it seems that the common names are more stable; Elymus spicatus, Agropyron spicatumand Pseudoroegneria spicata are all currently used scientific names for bluebunch wheatgrass. So why are we burdened with all this nomenclatural instability?  \nBEYOND THE TREES  \n2004 Annual Meeting  \nThe 2004 Annual Meeting will be hosted by the Artemisia Chapter on July 9-11 at the Timbercrest Girl Scout Camp up the West Fork of Rock Creek, about 5 miles from Red Lodge. There will be a variety of field trips \"beyond the trees\" featuring the Beartooth Plateau. Mark your calendars and start preparing the legs and lungs!  \nLeslie Marty  \nTo explore this question we must first recall the history of biological naming. Our modern system was developed by Carl von Linnaeus, a Swedish biologist in the middle of the 18th Century. He proposed the binomial system in which each species is identified by a unique Latinized epithet and a generic epithet shared by other similar species. Linnaeus pri-  \nPoa secunda (Sandberg bluegrass)  \nmarily used stamen characters to assign degree of similarity. He developed this system before Darwin and Wallace introduced the ideas of natural selection and the evolution of species. Once it was accepted that newer species evolved from older species, taxonomists strove to construct classifications based on principles of Darwinian evolution. Thus, taxonomic nomenclature came to serve two functions: (1) providing standardized names to facilitate communication and (2) reflecting evolutionary relationships. Unfortunately, serving two functions often causes conflict.  \nReasons for the current round of scientific name changes relate to one or the other of taxonomy’s functions. A perennial cause of nomenclatural instability centers around the debate over what delineates a species. In plant taxonomy the issue has turned as much on opinion as data.“Splitters” believe there is merit in recognizing small but consistent variation at the species level, while“lumpers” prefer to emphasize the close relationship among variants. In the first half of the last century Kenneth Mackenzie and others recognized many different species of similar-appearing sedges. Then Arthur Cronquist, who authored floras for much of North America in the latter part of the century, lumped many of these sedge species together. Now sedge experts are more inclined tobe splitters, and many of the species recognized during Mackenzie’s time  \n(Continued on page 8)  \nKelseya  \nPresident’s Platform  \nBetty Kuropat  \nWinter has come quickly on the heels of fall. I have skied more in the first week of December than I did in the whole month last year. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and find ways to bring plants into your frozen world.  \nThe fall board meeting was November 1, in Helena. We put the new project funding guidelines to work and approved several projects for the 2004 budget. Artemisia Chapter presented a very thorough request for a native plant display garden at ZooMontana. 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