Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Conium maculatum L.

Family: Apiaceae

Origin: introduced

Common names:

Bad-man's-oatmeal [Bad-man's-oatmeal] (1900?-1904) (69, 158)

Bunk (1900?-1923) (5, 69, 156, 158)

Cashes (1898-1923) (5, 69, 71, 156, 158)

Cicuta mayor (1900?) (158)

Cicuta officinalis (1828, Official Name of Materia medica) (7)

Ciguë officinale (1900?, French) (158)

Cique Commune (1828, French) (7)

Cique Ordinaire (1892, French) (6)

Common hemlock (1828) (7)

Conium (1828-1917, Official Name of Materia Medica) (7, 57, 60, 92)

European hemlock (1939, CO) (148)

Gefleckter Schierling (1900?, German) (158)

Gemeine Schierling (1828, German) (7)

Grand ciguë (1900?, French) (158)

Grand Cique (1892, French) (6)

Heck-how (1900?-1904) (69, 158)

Hemlock (1818-1939) (10, 14, 49, 53, 55, 60, 71, 92, 148)

Herb Bennet (1892-1919) (6, 71, 107)

Poison hemlock [Poison-hemlock, Poisonhemlock] (1892-Present, hemlock = leek of the shore or border in Saxon) (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 19, 49, 50, 52, 53, 57, 59, 62, 63, 71, 72, 92, 107, 109, 125, 126, 155, 156, 158)

Poison humlock (1900?, Anglo-Saxon hem "meadow" and lok or lich "death", this plant was the original hemlock) (158)

Poison humly (1900?) (158)

Poison snakeroot (1900?-1923) (156, 158)

Poison snakeweed (1898-1900?, missapplied) (71, 158)

Poison-parsley [Poison parsley] (1828-1923) (5, 7, 49, 52, 69, 92, 156, 158)

Poisonroot [Poison root] (1876-1898) (71, 92)

Schierling (1892, German) (6)

Snakeweed [Snake weed, Snake-weed] (1913-1923) (5, 156)

Spotted cowbane (1900?-1923) (69, 156, 158)

Spotted hemlock (1897-1922) (49, 53, 60)

Spotted parsley (1828-1923) (5, 7, 69, 71, 92, 156, 158)

Spotted poison-parsley [Spotted poison parsley] (1892) (6)

St. Bennet's-herb [St. Bennet's herb] (1900?-1923) (5, 69, 156, 158)

Stinkweed [Stink weed] (1892-1898) (6, 71)

Water-parsley [Water parsley] (1876) (92)

Wild hemlock (1892-1898) (6. 71)

Winter-fern (1898-1949) (71, 109)

Wode-whistle [Wode-whistle] (1898-1923) (5, 69, 71, 156, 158)

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