Science-geek rant:

Why, why, why did they have to take the genus named Aster - easy to spell, easy to pronounce, quick to write - and feel the need to transmogrify it (for most of the common species at least) into the horrible, painful-to-pronounce, clunky Symphyotrichum? I mean, geez, that would take me three times as long to write in the field - and I can't abbreviate it because then I'd confuse it with the totally different genus Symphoricarpos.

I mean, I just barely accept the hideous Dichanthelium in place of the shorter and more elegant Panicum, and now they go and do this.

I'm sure those wacky taxonomists have their reasons, but dammit, Jim, I'm a field botanist, not a taxonomist!

(learned this bit of disheartening "progress" off of the USDA Plants database