Plants have been classified for centuries, but not with unique identifiers. Linnaeus' system more or less did uniquely identify plants in a way that other researchers could work with. People classified plants according to why they needed to use them - mostly food and drugs. It was like all new scientific ideas, it had to be promoted. There's debate about whether linnaean botany is the best class ation system....

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