Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Liatris aspera Michx.

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Liatris scariosa Willd.

Common names:

Backache root (1882, Kansas) (48)

Blue blazing star [Blue blazing-star] (1878-1923) (86, 156)

Button snakeroot [Button-snakeroot] (1882-1923) (14, 156)

Devil's-bit (1923) (156)

Devil's-bite [Devil's bite, Devilsbite] (1894, Concord MA, because the corm or tuber is thought to look as if bitten off) (75, 156)

Gayfeather [Gay feather, Gay-feather] (1882-1977) (3, 48, 49, 106, 156)

Jacea altera non ramosa tuberosa radice foliis latioribus flores ferens pauciores majores (46)

Large button snakeroot (1930-1937) (82, 122)

Rattlesnake-master (1923) (156)

Tall blazing star (Present) (50)

Tall gayfeather (1942) (155)