Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Calamovilfa longifolia (Hook.) Scribn.

Family: Poaceae

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Calamagrostis longifolia Hook.

Common names:

Big sand grass (1901-1894) (5, 56, 129)

Carizzo (1913) (5)

Long-leaf reed grass [Long-leaved reed grass, Long-leaved reedgrass, Long-leaved reed-grass] (1851-1958) (5, 56, 94, 111, 116, 163)

Prairie sand-reed [Prairie sandreed] (1942-Present) (3, 50, 140, 155)

Reed grass [Reedgrass] (1932-1958) (85, 116)

Sand grass [Sandgrass] (1894-1944) (56, 75, 116, 140)

Sand reed grass [Sand reed-grass] (1932-1958) (115, 116)

Woolly bent (1903) (66)

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