Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Oenothera biennis L.

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Oenothera biennis L. ssp. caeciarum Munz, Oenothera biennis L. ssp. centralis Munz., Oenothera biennis L. var. pycnocarpa (Atkinson & Bartlett) Wiegand, Oenothera muricata L., Oenothera pycnocarpa Atkinson & Bartlett, Onagra biennis (L.) Scop. , Onagra biennis L.

Common names:

Biennial oenothera (1770) (41)

Coffee plant [Coffee-plant] (1893-1923, Eastern states, used as drink in harvest fields) (5, 74, 156)

Common evening-primrose [Common evening primrose, Common eveningprimrose] (1892-Present) (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 50, 62, 72, 93, 97, 109, 127, 138, 155, 156, 157, 158)

Cure-all (1892) (6)

Evening-primrose [Evening primrose] (1879-1937) (14, 46, 48, 49, 53, 57, 80, 85, 92, 107, 114, 122, 124, 131, 145, 157)

Fever plant [Fever-plant] (1893-1923?, Eastern states, used as diaphoretic, obsolete by 1923) (5, 74, 156, 157, 158)

Field evening-primrose [Field evening primrose] (1900-1929) (157, 158)

Four-o'clock [Four-o-clock] (1900-1923, misapplied) (5, 156, 158)

German rampion (1919-1923) (107, 156)

King's cure-all [King's-cure-all] (1893-1923?, Southern states, used in domestic medicine, obsolete by 1923) (5, 74, 156, 157, 158)

Large rampion (1900-1929 ) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Nachtkerz or Nachtkerze (German) (1892-1900) (6, 158)

Night willow-herb [Night willow herb] (1892-1929 ) (5, 6, 156, 157, 158)

Northern evening-primrose [Northern evening primrose] (1913-1923) (5, 138)

Onagre (1892-1900, French) (6, 158)

Primrose tree (1828) (7)

Scabish (1828-1923?, South Berwick ME, misapplied, obsolete by 1923) (5, 6, 7, 19, 76, 92, 156, 158)

Scurvish (1893-1923?, Franconia NH, obsolete by 1923) (5, 74, 156, 158)

Sundrop (1828) (7)

Tree-primrose [Tree primrose] (1671-1929, Josselyn) (5, 6, 19, 46, 49, 53, 156, 157, 158)

Wild evening-primrose [Wild evening primrose] (1900-1929) (157, 158)

Yellow lysimachus of Virginia (1671, Josselyn) (46)