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Names of flowers



Sonn
Russian Federation

Names of flowers
 
Dear friends, I have a question concerning names of flowers and I´ll be very appreciated if you can help me.

Do we have to write names of flowers with a capital letter? I am reading a book of a British publisher and all the flowers there are capitalized even if they are in the middle of a sentence. But in Wikipedia these words are written with lower case letters. Are there any rules of writing the names of flowers?

Thanks in advance,
Natalia

20 Mar 2014      





alexcure
Poland

Hi Natalia,

the names of flowers don �t need capital letters. The author of the book you �ve read might have had his/her own intention to have used capital letters, either to underline their importance or because of his/her private attitude towards flowers or some other reason. 

Have a good day,

Alex 

20 Mar 2014     



yanogator
United States

In fact, the names of flowers should not be written with capital letters, since they are not proper nouns.
 
Bruce

20 Mar 2014     



Sonn
Russian Federation

Thank you very much, dear Alex and Bruce. 

20 Mar 2014