Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Cicuta maculata L.

Family: Apiaceae

Origin: native

Common names:

American hemlock (1828-1876?) (7, 92)

American water hemlock [American water-hemlock] (1876?-1917) (6, 57, 71, 92, 158)

Americanische Schierling (1828, German) (7)

Amerikanischer Wasserschierling (1892, German) (6)

Beaver-poison [Beaver poison] (1892-1923) (2, 6, 71, 92, 156, 158)

Children's-bane [Children's bane] (1828-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (6, 7, 71, 92, 133, 156, 158)

Cicuta (1876-1930) (92, 125)

Cicuta Americana (1828, Official Name of Materia Medica) (7)

Cique d'Amerique (1828-1932, French) (6, 7)

Common water hemlock (1986) (4)

Cowbane (1898-1930) (56, 71, 80, 125, 133)

Death-of-man [Death of man] (1828-1923) (6, 7, 71, 92, 156, 158)

Muskratweed [Muskrat weed] (1898) (71)

Musquash-poison (1900?-1923) (156, 158)

Musquashroot [Musquash root, Musquash-root] (1892-1949) (2, 5, 6, 62, 71, 109, 133, 156, 158)

Poison hemlock (1852-1932, misapplied) (40, 47, 85, 158)

Poison snakeweed (1900?) (158)

Poisonroot [Poison root] (1828) (7)

Snakeweed [Snake weed, Snake-weed] (1828-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (6, 7, 71, 76, 156)

Spotted beaver-poison [Spotted beaver poison] (1903, ND) (133)

Spotted cowbane [Spotted cow-bane] (1892-1923) (2, 6, 62, 71, 92, 114, 133, 156)

Spotted hemlock (1876?-1913) (5, 71, 92)

Spotted parsley (1898-1903) (71, 133, 158)

Spotted water hemlock [Spotted waterhemlock] (1923-Present) (50, 138, 155)

Wanûkons' (1928, Chippewa) (40)

Water hemlock [Water-hemlock] (1898-1977) (3, 5, 62, 63, 71, 97, 121, 126, 131, 133, 156)

Water parsley (1828) (7)

Wild hemlock (1828-1936) (7, 71, 72, 92, 93, 98, 158)

Wild parsnip (1900?-1937, misapplied) (122, 124, 158)

Zongxaštongga (1918?-1970?, Osage, large wood) (121)

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