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A beautiful sculpture at the Chicago Botanic garden which stands over the Heritage Garden which showcases planting by family groups based on Carl Linnaeus work. Here is some additional information on him from Wikipedia: Carl Linnaeus ( 23 May 1707 � 10 January 1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. He left Sweden and lived in the Netherlands, attending the University of Leiden for several years, and published his most famous work there "Systema Naturae". He then returned to Sweden and did many plant classification journeys to further his work.