Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants

Medicago lupulina L.

Family: Fabaceae

Origin: introduced

Scientific Synonyms: Medicago lupulina L. var. cupaniana (Guss.) Boiss., Medicago lupulina L. var. glandulosa Neilr.

Common names:

Black clover (1932, SD) (85)

Black grass [Black-grass] (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

Black medick [Black medic] (1896-Present) (3, 4, 5, 45, 50, 62, 68, 80, 82, 92, 97, 106, 107, 109, 155, 156, 158)

Black nonesuch (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

Black trefoil (1900-1913) (5, 158)

Blackseed [Black-seed] (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

Blackseed hop clover (1907, IA) (72)

Bur clover (1870) (103)

Dutch clover (1840-1876?) (19, 92)

Hop clover [Hop-clover] (1900-1949) (5, 85, 93, 109, 122, 156, 158)

Hop medick [Hop-medick, Hop medic] (1840-1923) (5, 14, 19, 62, 92, 156, 158)

Hop trefoil (1876-1900) (92, 158)

Horned clover (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

Medick (1876) (92)

Melilot trefoil (1876-1913) (5, 92, 158)

Melilotus capsulis reni similibus in capitulum congestis (1694, Tournefort) (46)

Natural-grass [Natural grass] (1900-1913) (5, 158)

Nonesuch [Nonsuch] (1840-1923) (5, 19, 45, 46, 62, 92, 107, 156, 158)

Prostrate yellow clover (1912, IN) (62)

Sainfoin (1913-1923) (5, 156)

Shamrock (1900-1923, misapplied) (5, 156, 158)

Yellow hop clover [Yellow hop-clover] (1923) (156)

Yellow trefoil (1911-1939) (68, 95, 109, 146)