I rec'd the following request by email today and am posting it for others to hopefully contribute to my reply.

From Mary:
My father recently passed away and I was given a gift of money to buy a plant, flowers or tree in his memory since he enjoyed gardening so much. I would like to know if there are any plants or flowers or trees with the name "Ernest" "Dad/Daddy or Father" or "Karst" Thank you for your help. Mary

My first thought was of 'Ernest Markum' clematis.
There is also a tropical bougainvillea named 'Barbara Karst'. I don't know where Mary is located, zone-wise.

Anyone have any other plant ideas????

I can't locate the thread where Nicola posted a plant name resource site.... anyone?

James in Amarillo sent us a trug full of plant search sites, that I shall add below.

Surfing thru a few, I found a couple more plants for you to consider Mary.

Euchiton japonicus
'Father-and-Child Plant'

Tradescantia ernestiana
'Ernest's Spiderwort'


Here is James kind offering

http://plants.usda.gov/,USDA

http://www.huh.harvard.edu/databases/,Harvard

http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/database.html,Herbmed

http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/ncu/genera/NCUGQuery.htm,Berlin

http://gmr.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/Plantnames/Sorting/Admin.html,Landfood

http://www.lib.umd.edu/MCK/GUIDES/plant_names.html,MCK Guides

http://www.uvm.edu/~pass/perry/ppnames.htm,UVM Edu

http://www.ipni.org/,IPNI

Here are a few more
Lonicera nitida 'Ernest Wilson'
Acer davidii 'Ernest Wilson'
Aster novi-belgii 'Ernest Ballard'
Rhododendron 'Ernest Inman'
Rosa 'Ernest H.Morse'

There should be quite a few more plants named Ernest Wilson after the great plant hunter.

Hope this helps. Good luck

Thanks for even more Nicola.
See you soon :-)