Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Artemisia tridentata Nutt.

origin: native

Common names:

Absinthe (1850) (28)

Big sage (1939, MT) (146)

Big sagebrush (1939-Present) (3, 4, 50, 146, 155)

Black sage (1923) (156)

Blue sage (1923) (156)

Common sagebrush [Common sage-brush] (1878-1911) (95, 108, 158)

Common sagebush [Common sage-bush] (1913) (5)

Mountain sage [Mountain-sage] (1900-1936) (5, 93, 156, 157, 158)

Prairie sage (1845) (44)

Qémqem (1806, Nez Perce, Ordway - spelled cum-cum) (35)

Sage (1850) (28)

Sagebrush [Sage brush, Sage-brush] (1890-1949) (5, 57, 75, 101, 109, 113, 130, 138, 156, 157, 158)

Sagebush [Sage-bush] (1936, Neb) (93)

Sageplant [Sage plant] (1882) (14)

Sagewood [Sage wood, sage-wood] (1913-1929) (5, 156, 157)

Southernwood (1806, Meriwether Lewis) (35)

Three-tooth sagebrush [Three-toothed sage-brush] (1878) (108)

Wild hyssop (1806, William Clark - spelled various ways) (35)

Wild sage (1860) (160)