Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Danthonia spicata (L.) Beauv. ex Roemer & J.A. Schultes

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Danthonia thermalis Scribn.

Common names:

Common wild oat grass (1907-1913) (5, 72)

June grass (1885-1894) (75, 90)

Old fog (1885-1903) (66, 75, 90)

Poverty danthonia (1942) (155)

Poverty grass (1852-1936) (143)

Poverty oat grass [Poverty oatgrass, Poverty oat-grass] (1936-Present) (3, 50, 122, 143)

Spiked wild oat grass (1884-1885) (87, 90)

Whitetop [White top] (1885-1903) (66, 90)

Wild oat grass [Wild oat-grass, Wild oats grass] (1885-1938) (56, 66, 85, 90, 94, 119, 143)

Wild oats (1840) (19)

Wire grass (1885, ME) (90)

Witch grass (1898, ME) (78)