Common Names of Great Plains Plants: An Historical Dictionary

Goodale, George L. 1882. Wild flowers of America. With fifty-colored plates, from original drawings, by Isaac Sprague.

Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants

Aquilegia canadensis L.

Family: Ranunculaceae

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Aquilegia australis Small, Aquilegia canadensis L. var. australis (Small) Munz, Aquilegia canadensis L. var. coccinea (Small) Munz, Aquilegia canadensis L. var. eminens (Greene) Boivin, Aquilegia canadensis L. var. hybrida Hook., Aquilegia canadensis L. var. latiuscula (Greene) Munz, Aquilegia coccinea Small, Aquilegia latiuscula Greene, Aquilegia phoenicantha Cory

Common names:

Akeley (1923) (156)

American columbine (1923-1942) (138, 155)

Bells (1896-1929, Sulphur Grove OH) (5, 76, 157, 158)

Canadian columbine (1879) (46)

Chuckies (1929) (157)

Chuckles (1929) (157)

Cluckies (1913-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156)

Columbine (1900-1937) (82, 124, 127, 157)

Common columbine (1937, TX) (122)

Cory's columbine (1937, TX) (122, 124)

Culverwort (1923) (156)

Honeysuckle [Honey-suckle] (1896-1923, Madison WI, misapplied) (5, 76, 156, 158)

Inubthon-kithe-sabe-hi (1919, Omaha-Ponca, black perfume plant) (37)

Jacket-and-breeches [Jacket and breeches] (1896) (76)

Jack-in-trousers (1896-1929, Lynn MA, children's name) (5, 76, 156, 157, 158)

Meeting-houses [Meeting houses] (1900-1929) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Moηbixoη (1918?-1970?, Osage) (121)

Red bells (1923) (156)

Red columbine (1828-Present) (50, 7, 92, 156, 157, 158)

Rockbells [Rock bells, Rock-bells] (1913-1923) (5, 156)

Rocklily [Rock lily, Rock-lily] (1900-1929) (5, 157, 158)

Skalikatit or Skarikatit (1919, Pawnee, black-seed) (37)

Turkscap [Turks-cap] (1923, misapplied) (156)

Wild columbine (1894-1937) (3, 4, 5, 19, 37, 63, 82, 85, 97, 107, 114, 131, 157, 158)

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