Blowball?
Swine's snout?
Yellow daisy?
Dandelion?

What was the right name? Young Karl Linné wasn’t sure— and neither was anyone else!

Doctors, gardeners, farmers— everybody!—argued about the names of plants and animals. How could scientists communicate if they couldn’t even agree on what to call things?

Karl knew there was only one solution: to give EVERY LIVING THING in the world a scientific name. But that was an enormous job. Could he do it?

From the dust jacket