> Names were given by the first white european man that "found" the plant, instead of the local inhabitants who have known and named the plants for thousands of years.

I see this brought up often in all sorts of contexts. It's the "if a tree falls in the woods and no one's around" thing. If some indigenous group with no writing system nor contact with the rest of the world has a name for something... does it really have a name or even exist in the global sense since no one else can be made aware of it?