Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Chenopodium botrys L.

Family: Chenopodiaceae

Origin: introduced

Scientific Synonyms: Botrydium botrys (L.) Small, Teloxys botrys (L.) W.A. Weber

Common names:

Ambrose (1900?-1929?) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Ambrosia (1894, Concord MA) (75)

Chénopode à grappes (1900?, French) (158)

Feather-geranium [Feather geranium] (1876-1949) (5, 92, 93, 95, 109, 156, 157, 158)

Hindheal [Hind-heal] (1900?-1929?) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Jerusalem-oak [Jerusalem oak] (1900?-1977) (1, 3, 4, 72, 85, 122, 138, 156, 157, 158)

Jerusalem-oak goosefoot [Jerusalem oak goosefoot, Jerusalemoak goosefoot] (1942-Present) (50, 155)

Oak-of-Jerusalem [Oak of Hierusalem] (1671-1840, deliberately introduced by colonists by 1671, Josselyn) (46)

Sweet Jerusalem-oak [Sweet Jerusalem oak] (1828) (7)

Traubenkraut (1900?, German) (158)

Turnpike-geranium [Turnpike geranium] (1900?-1929?) (5, 156, 157, 158)

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