![A white Gardenia flower](/sites/default/files/2022-01/Untitled%20design%20%2833%29.png)
A Gardenia Bloom by Flickr user Paul VanDerWerf.
(1730-1791) Alexander Garden was a Scottish-born physician and naturalist who lived for many years in Charleston, South Carolina, collecting and observing flora and fauna of South Carolina. The Gardenia flower is named after him.