Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Eriophorum virginicum L.

Origin: native

Common names:

Moss-crop [Moss crop] (1840-1923) (5, 19, 92, 156)

Rusty cotton-grass [Rusty cotton grass] (1903) (66)

Silke grass (1610, possibly this species) (46)

Tall cotton-rush (1879) (46)

Tawny cotton-grass [Tawny cotton grass] (1923-Present) (50, 156)

Virginia cotton-grass [Virginia cotton grass] (1913-1923) (5, 156)

Virginia cotton-sedge [Virginia cottonsedge] (1942) (155)