Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Asclepias syriaca L.

origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Asclepias cornuta Dcne., Asclepias cornuti Dcne., Asclepias intermedia Vail., Asclepias kansana Vail, Asclepias syriaca L. var. kansana (Vail) Palmer & Steyermark

Common names:

Apocynum maius (1635, Cornuti) (46)

Asclepiade a la Soie (1892-1900, French) (6, 158)

Common milkweed (1892-Present) (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 19, 40, 50, 59, 53, 57, 62, 63, 64, 72, 80, 82, 85, 93, 95, 109, 114, 127, 131, 138, 155, 156, 157, 158)

Common silkweed [Common silk weed] (1869-1929) (57, 58, 92, 157, 158)

Cotonier (1770, French Canadian) (41)

Cotton tree (1760, Jefferys, Canada) (107 )

Herbe à la ouate (French) (1892-1900) (6, 158)

Ini'niwûnj (1928, Chippewa, man-like) (40)

Intermediate milkweed (1913) (5)

Karipiku (1919, Pawnee) (37)

Mahintsh (1919, Winnebago) (37)

Milkplant [Milk plant] (1850) (28)

Milkweed (1869-1922) (37, 53, 56, 58, 80, 107, 145)

Schwalbenwurzel (1892, German) (6)

Seidenpflanzen (1892-1900, German) (6, 158)

Silk-grass (1923) (156)

Silkweed (1876-1937) (5, 6, 49, 53, 62, 92, 107, 122, 157, 158)

Silky swallow-wort [Silky swallowwort, Silky swallowort] (1828-1929) (5, 7, 92, 156, 157, 158)

Swallow wort (1840-1876) (19, 92)

Sweet milkweed (1923) (156)

Virginia silk [Virginian silk] (1850-1929) (5, 28, 156, 157, 158)

Virginian swallow-wort (1892) (6)

Wah'tha (Omaha-Ponca) (1919) (37)

Wild cotton (1892-1929) (5, 6, 49, 53, 62, 75, 156, 157, 158)