Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Chenopodium album L.

Origin: native & introduced

Common names:

Ansérine sauvage (1900?, French) (158)

Baconweed [Bacon-weed] (1900?-1929?) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Blackweed [Black weed] (1898, Eastern Long Island, stains fingers black) (77)

Calite (1894, NM) (150)

Canxlogan ingkpa gmigmela (1918?-1970?, Lakota, small end rounded weed) (121)

Dirty-Dick [Dirty Dick] (1900?-1929?) (156, 157, 158)

Fat-hen [Fat hen] (1900?-1929?) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Frostblite [Frost blite, Frost-blite] (1900?-1929?) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Goosefoot (1770-1894) (41, 150)

Green pigweed [Green pig-weed] (1840) (19)

Kitsarius (1919, Pawnee, green juice) (37)

Lamb's-quarters [Lamb's-quarter, Lamb's quarters, Lambsquarters, Lambs' quarter, Lamb's-quarters] (1806-Present, Meriwether Lewis) (3, 4, 5, 35, 37, 45, 50, 62, 72, 80, 85, 92, 93, 95, 97, 103, 107, 121, 122, 125, 131, 145, 150, 156, 157, 158)

Lambsquarters goosefoot (1942) (155)

Mails (1900?-1929?) (157, 158)

Meals (1900?-1929?) (156, 157, 158)

Melge (1900?-1929?) (157, 158)

Miles (1900?-1929?) (157, 158)

Motton-tops (1929) (157)

Muckweed [Muck-weed] (1900?-1929?) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Mutton-tops (1900?-1923) (156, 158)

Pigweed [Pig-weed] (1894-1936) (5, 45, 62, 80, 93, 107, 131, 150, 156, 157, 158)

Ragjag [Rag-jag] (1900?-1929?) (156, 157, 158)

Wah'pe toto (1919, Dakota, greens) (37)

Weisser Gänsefuss (1900?, German) (158)

White goosefoot [White goose-foot] (1900?-1936) (5, 62, 93, 107, 157, 158)

Wild spinach (1900?-1929?) (5, 156, 157, 158)