Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Monotropa uniflora L.

Family: Monotropaceae

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Monotropa brittonii Small, Montropa uniflora L.

Common names:

American ice-plant (1900-1929) (5, 157, 158)

Bird's-nest [Bird's nest, Birds' nest, Birdsnest] (1840-1929) (6, 19, 49, 156)

Bird's-nest plant [Bird's nest plant, Birds' nest plant] (1876-1913) (5, 92, 158)

Common Indian pipe (1895) (2)

Convulsion-root [Convulsion-root] (1891-1929) (5, 6, 73, 79, 157, 158)

Convulsion-weed [Convulsion weed] (1876-1923) (5, 92, 156, 158)

Corpse plant [Corpse-plant] (1895) (2)

Corpse plant [Corpse-plant] (1892-1929) (5, 6, 63, 92, 156, 157, 158)

Dutchman's-pipe [Dutchman's pipe] (1894-1923, misapplied) (5, 75, 156, 158)

Einblûthige Monotropa (1892, German) (6)

Eyebright [Eye-bright] (1900-1923, misapplied) (5, 156, 158)

Fairy-smoke [Fairy smoke] (1894-1923?, Deering ME, obsolete by 1923) (5, 75, 156, 157, 158)

Fir rape (1876) (92)

Fit plant (1898-1913) (5, 49)

Fit-root [Fit root, Fitroot] (1828-1923) (5, 6, 7, 158)

Fit-root plant [Fit root plant] (1898-1923) (92, 156)

Ghost-flower (1892-1929, NB, S. Berick ME) (5, 73, 77, 156, 157, 158)

Ice plant [Ice-plant] (1828-1923) (6, 7, 48, 49, 61, 156)

Indian pipe [Indian-pipe, Indianpipe] (1892-Present) (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 19, 49, 50, 63, 72, 92, 95, 131, 138, 155, 156, 157, 158)

Nest plant (1892) (6)

Nest-root [Nest root, Nestroot] (1828-1900) (7, 92, 158)

Ova-ova (1876-1900) (92, 158)

Pipe plant [Pipe-plant] (1828-1929) (5, 6, 7, 49, 92, 156, 157, 158)

Tobacco-pipe [Tobacco pipe] (1892) (6)

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