Your favorite mnemnonics

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I had a bunch of these when learning my latin binomials in herb school, but I think the only one I can remember at the moment is for horehound, aka marrubium vulgare.

You marry a bum, you get vulgare, thanks to that whore he hounded!
(No, I have no idea what STD “vulgare” is s’posed to be, but it’s evocative, isn’t it?)