Local name for buddleia in the UK

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I’ve been observing buddleia in the UK for almost 50 years. I’ve never heard a Brit calling it by the, (I presume) North American name.

  1. Does iNatruralist have capacity for en_GB names for plants or only en_US ?
  2. If you are from an island near or in Europe, do you know a buddleia by any other name?

My two Seek friends joke about the other name when Seek makes mistakes.

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It gets called “Butterfly bush” a lot - the BSBI’s Atlas uses it and it’s the preferred name that the NBN Atlas lists.

I find gardeners call it “Buddleia” a lot but it’s probably not the best name for B. davidii specifically as there other species in the genus that can naturalise like Buddleja globosa (“orange-ball tree”) - nowhere near as popular in gardens, and nowhere as well-naturalised though.

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If I choose English (UK) as locale I see Butterfly bush.
I am not from an island and know the plant as Buddleia or Butterfly bush (translated).
https://www.nonnativespecies.org/assets/Uploads/Buddleja_davidii_Butterfly_Bush_final_for_website.pdf
https://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=49&Wildflower=Butterfly-bush

Configured names for Buddleja davidii in iNaturalist are:
summer lilac
orange-eye butterfly bush
Butterfly bush
Chinese Sagewood

@1 I should suggest an other solution for this.

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What’s the ‘presumed American’ name? I know it as buddleia or butterfly bush. I also call it ‘railway weed’… but no-one else does.

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Welcome to the iNaturalist Forum @lxr!

Currently there is no English name localized to the UK for Buddleja davidii, so it is displaying the default global English name instead.

Anyone can add a localized name on the taxon page for a species. If there are no other names for the same place and language, it will become the default for that place and language.

If others disagree about what should be the default for that place, though, it is better to flag the taxon for curation and start a discussion first.

Since these discussion are better conducted on taxon flags in iNaturalist, I have opened this flag where the discussion can continue, and am closing this Forum topic.

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