Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Artemisia dracunculus L.

origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Artemisia cernua Nutt., Artemisia dracunculoides Pursh, Artemisia dracunculoides Pursh var. dracunculina (S. Wats.) Blake, Artemisia dracunculus L. ssp. glauca (Pallas ex Willd.) Hall & Clements, Artemisia dracunculus L. var. glauca (Pallas ex Willd.) Bess., Artemisia glauca Pallas ex Willd., Oligosporus dracunculus (L.) Poljakov, Oligosporus dracunculus (L.) Poljakov ssp. dracunculinus (S. Wats.) W.A. Weber, Oligosporus dracunculus (L.) Poljakov ssp. glaucus (Pallas ex Willd.) A.& D. Löve

Common names:

Ba'sibûgûk' or Ba'sûnûkûk' (1928, Chippewa, small leaf) (1928) (40)

Biting-dragon (1900-1929) (157, 158)

Bû'giso'win (1928, Chippewa, swimming or bath) (40)

Common wormwood (1899, SD) (131)

Dragon (1900, corruption of tarragon) (158)

Dragunbeifuss (1900, German) (158)

Estragon (1900, French and Spanish) (158)

False-tarragon sagebrush [Falsetarragon sagebrush] (1942) (155)

Fuzzyweed [Fuzzy weed] (1919) (37)

I'ckode'bûg (1928, Chippewa, fire leaf) (40)

Jin'gwakwan'dûg (1928, Chippewa, pine) (40)

Kaisersalat (1900, German) (158)

Kihapiliwus (1919, Pawnee, broom) (37)

Linear-leaf wormwood [Linearleaf wormwood, Linear-leaved wormwood] (1907-1937) (5, 72, 93, 97, 122)

Mugwort (1928) (40)

O'gima'wûck (1928, Chippewa, chief medicine) (40)

Rake-hinshek (1919, Winnebago, bushy weed or fuzzy weed) (37)

Sagebrush [Sage brush] (1932-1937) (85, 124)

Silky wormwood (1913-1936) (3, 4, 5, 85, 93, 98)

Tarragon (1649-Present) (46, 50, 57, 92, 107, 109, 138, 155, 157, 158)

Thasata-hi (1919, Omaha-Ponca) (37)

Wormwood (1937, TX) (124)