Some plants don’t have common names.
Some plants have more than one common name.
Some plants share a common name with a completely different plant.
Using the botanic name, you know exactly what you are buying.
Searching for plants by their common name takes longer.
Say you wanted flowering sages – you’d need to look under flowering sage, Mexican sage, blue sage, black sage, baby sage, anise sage, forsythia sage, and sand sage to find them.
Using their botanic name, they’re all together alphabetically under Salvia.
That's why we list most of our plants under their botanic name, with any common name after that. So all the same kind of plants are together, which makes them easy to find.