Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants

Echinacea angustifolia DC.

Family: Asteraceae

Origin: native

Black sampson (1852-1919) (47, 49, 52, 54)

Blacksamson echinacea (1942-Present) (50, 155)

Comb (1896, Burnside SD, Lepachys columnaris Torr. & Gray is brush) (76)

Comb plant (1919) (37)

Coneflower [Cone flower] (1905-1922) (49, 52, 53, 54)

Echinacea (1905-1917) (52, 54, 57)

Ichah'pe-hu (1919, Dakota, whip plant) (37)

Ksapitahako (1919, Pawnee, to whirl in the hand) (37)

Mika-hi (1919, Omaha-Ponca, comb plant) (37)

Narrow-leaf coneflower [Narrow leaf cone flower] (1937, TX) (124)

Narrow-leaf purple coneflower [Narrowleaf purplecone flower, Narrow-leaved purple cone-flower] (1898-1937) (5, 37, 49, 53, 97, 122)

Pale-purple coneflower [Pale purple cone flower] (1899, IA) (63)

Purple coneflower [Purple cone-flower] (1919-1936) (49, 52, 53, 93, 127)

Rattlesnake-weed [Rattlesnake weed] (1905, MT, says root has acrid burning taste, could this be a misidentification?) (101)

Saparidu kahts (1919, Pawnee, mushroom medicine) (37)

Snakeroot (1905, MT) (101)