"Butterfly bush" in the UK is a common name for buddliea.
"Butterfly bush" in USA and Australia is a common name for gaura
lindheimeri
"Butterfly bush" in South Africa is a common name for polygala fruticosa.

This is interesting, you seem to know quite a bit about plant naming, How
does one get hold of information like that discribed above?

Pat

P.S. not to nit pick but should it not be Buddleja


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Janet Baraclough wrote:

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"Butterfly bush" is the common name that encompasses all
buddlieas..if you're in the UK. It's naturalised in the UK, and has a
UK
common name.

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You will also find that in other countries the common name is the same
as the common names in the UK which means the exact description of the
plant without naturally where it's from, where it grows etc which is
more specified using latin. Butterfly bush will be in French 'arbre a
papillons', meaning the same thing.

You're missing the point entirely.

Here it is again. Never take it for granted that the same common name
used in another country or another language, means the same plant that
common name means in your own country and language. It may do, or it may
not.

"Butterfly bush" in the UK is a common name for buddliea.
"Butterfly bush" in USA and Australia is a common name for gaura
lindheimeri
"Butterfly bush" in South Africa is a common name for polygala fruticosa.

Janet