Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Lycium barbarum L.

Origin: introduced

Scientific Synonyms: Lycium halimifolium P. Mill., Lycium vulgare Dunal

Common names:

Barbary matrimony-vine (1923) (138)

Barbary wolfberry (1942) (155)

Bastard jasmine (1894-1900, IA) (75, 158)

Bastard jesssamine (1913) (5)

Boxthorn [Box thorn, Box-thorn] (1876?-1923) (5, 75, 92, 156, 158)

Common matrimony-vine (1923) (138)

Duke of Argyll's tea-tree (1900) (158)

False jessamine (1923) (156)

Fever-twig (1923) (156)

Jackson vine [Jackson-vine] (1892-1923, Mansfield O, verbal corruption) (5, 73, 156, 158)

Jasmine (1892-1913, Mansfield O) (5, 73)

Jessamine (1892-1900, Stratham NH, misapplied) (73, 158)

Matrimony vine [Matrimony-vine, Matrimonyvine] (1840-Present) (1, 3, 5, 19, 50, 63, 72, 82, 85, 92, 93, 95, 106, 114, 148, 155, 156, 158)

Morel (1923) (156)

Privy (1892, Mansfield O) (73)

Tether-devil [Tether devil] (1923) (156)

Violet-bloom [Violet bloom] (1923) (156)

Washington's bower (1898, Southwest MO) (77)

Wolf-grape (1923) (156)