Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants

Lolium perenne L.

Family: Poaceae

Origin: introduced

Common darnel (1890-1936) (68, 90, 143)

Crap (1913) (5)

Darnel (1840-1932) (19, 45, 85, 92)

Darnel grass (1876?) (92)

English blue grass (1894, WV) (5, 75)

English ray grass (1890-1913, Ottawa) (67, 68)

English rye (1901, IA) (56)

English rye grass [English rye-grass] (1890-1949) (68, 109, 119, 163)

Ever grass [Ever-grass] (1913-1938) (5, 119)

Italian rye grass (1884-1898) (87, 90, 118)

Perennial ray grass [Perennial ray-grass] (1896) (45)

Perennial rye (1901-1913) (5, 56)

Perennial rye grass [Perennial ryegrass, Perennial rye-grass] (1852-Present) (45, 50, 56, 66, 68, 90, 92, 109, 111, 119, 122, 129, 138, 140, 143, 152, 155, 163)

Ray grass [Ray-grass] (1852-1938) (5, 56, 90, 92, 119, 157, 163)

Red dare (1913) (5)

Red darnel (1913) (5)

Red ray (1913-1938OK) (5, 119)

Rye grass [Rye-grass] (1884-1938IA ME OK) (5, 72, 87, 88, 90, 92, 94, 119)

White nonesuch (1913) (5, )