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What if Frankenstein had been a botanist?

Had a silly idea the other day and went through with it. Eighteen plant species; not to scale, obviously. I was pretty surprised how many plants were named after body parts in English, I still have enough to make at least one more creature without repeating anything...

(To anyone possibly saying stuff like "I've never heard [latin name] being called [english name used in this picture]": neither have I. Not being a native speaker, I have no idea how do people usually call these plants; it's all from Wikipedia.)
Here's the list, for anyone curious & not able/willing to decipher my handwriting:
- staghorn fern (Platycerium bifurcatum)
- buckeye (Aesculus hippocastanum)
- lamb's ear (Stachys byzantina)
- dragonhead (Dracocephalum moldavica)
- crane's bill (Geranium pratense)
- cat whiskers (Orthosiphon aristatus)
- fiddleneck (Amsinckia menziesii)
- blue throatwort (Trachelium caeruleum)
- heart flower (Lamprocapnos spectabilis)
- bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
- liverleaf (Hepatica nobilis)
- lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis)
- bird's-foot sedge (Carex ornithopoda)
- hare-foot fern (Phlebodium aureum)
- feather grass (Stipa pennata)
- devil's claw (Harpagophytum procumbens)
- hair-like sedge (Carex capillaris)
- cattail (Typha latifolia)

Description
What if Frankenstein had been a botanist?

Had a silly idea the other day and went through with it. Eighteen plant species; not to scale, obviously. I was pretty surprised how many plants were named after body parts in English, I still have enough to make at least one more creature without repeating anything...

(To anyone possibly saying stuff like "I've never heard [latin name] being called [english name used in this picture]": neither have I. Not being a native speaker, I have no idea how do people usually call these plants; it's all from Wikipedia.)
Here's the list, for anyone curious & not able/willing to decipher my handwriting:
- staghorn fern (Platycerium bifurcatum)
- buckeye (Aesculus hippocastanum)
- lamb's ear (Stachys byzantina)
- dragonhead (Dracocephalum moldavica)
- crane's bill (Geranium pratense)
- cat whiskers (Orthosiphon aristatus)
- fiddleneck (Amsinckia menziesii)
- blue throatwort (Trachelium caeruleum)
- heart flower (Lamprocapnos spectabilis)
- bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
- liverleaf (Hepatica nobilis)
- lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis)
- bird's-foot sedge (Carex ornithopoda)
- hare-foot fern (Phlebodium aureum)
- feather grass (Stipa pennata)
- devil's claw (Harpagophytum procumbens)
- hair-like sedge (Carex capillaris)
- cattail (Typha latifolia)