Plants and Fungi Name Generator
Devil's claw. Witch's butter. Destroying angel. Hundreds of folk and common names for flowers, trees, herbs, and mushrooms, no Latin, no taxonomy, just the names people actually use when they're not pretending to be botanists.
The everyday names, the folk names, the menacing names
"Bleeding heart" is a real flower. So is "love-lies-bleeding." So are "wolfsbane," "lamb's ear," "snake gourd," and "old man's beard." Every name in the pool is a common or folk name for a real plant or fungus. The mushrooms have names like "destroying angel," "death cap," and "witch's butter" because mushrooms have been frightening people for a long time, and the names show it.
For witches, gardens, fiction, and band names
Use it as a brewing-shop inventory list for a tabletop campaign, a folk-magic shopping list for a novel, names for a flower garden you can pretend to keep, names for a cat / dog / hamster / chicken that need to read as "the witch's familiar," a band that wants to sound like it tours mossy forests, an Etsy shop, or a wifi network that feels appropriately seasonal in October.
Why mushrooms are in here
Mushrooms aren't plants. Fungi are their own kingdom, taxonomically closer to animals than to ferns. But folk-name mushrooms ("inky cap," "bearded tooth," "the prince") fit so well alongside folk-name flowers that splitting them into two strategies felt fussy. So they share the strategy and the name reflects that.
How it fits with the rest of the site
Hurry Up and Pick a Name is a random name generator with ten strategies. Plants & Fungi is one of the Pro strategies. Pro is a one-time $2 unlock that also gets you world mythology, Tolkien's Middle-earth, and the cross-strategy Blender that mashes the rest of the site together. Pro also unlocks saves and blocks so the generator remembers your taste. One charge, lifetime access.