Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Platanus occidentalis L.

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Platanus occidentalis L. var. glabrata (Fern.) Sargent

Common names:

American plane (1949) (109)

American plane tree [American planetree] (1785-1942) (2, 8, 19, 38, 92, 138, 155, 158)

American sycamore (1879-Present) (50, 46)

Buttonball [Button ball, Button-ball, Button-balls] (1894-1929) (5, 75, 95, 156, 157)

Buttonball tree (1930) (106)

Buttonwood [Button wood, Button-wood] (1770-1949) (5, 10, 14, 20, 19, 38, 41, 44, 46, 92, 93, 97, 106, 109, 113, 156, 158)

Cotonier (1770-1796, French, cotton tree) (17, 41)

Cotton tree (1857, Canada & upper Louisiana) (20)

False sycamore (1840-1923) (5, 19, 92, 156, 158)

Large buttonwood [Large button wood (1785) (8)

Monkeyballs (1923) (156)

Occidental plane tree (1820) (38)

Palm tree (1805, obviously not actually a palm) (18)

Plane tree (1805) (18)

Plane tree [Plane tree, Planetree] (1873-1986) (4, 5, 9, 72, 92, 93, 95, 113, 156)

Platane d'Occident (1785, French) (8)

Porcupine-eggs [Porcupine eggs] (1923) (156)

Smooth American plane tree [Smooth American planetree] (1942) (155)

Sycamore (1818-1986, William Clark, Ordway, misapplied) (3, 4, 10, 17, 20, 27, 35, 38, 65, 72, 93, 97, 106, 112, 113, 122, 124, 156, 158)

Vattenbok or vassbok (1770, Swedish) (41)

Virginia maple [Virginian maple] (1770) (41)

Water-beech [Water beech] (1770-1923, misapplied) (5, 20, 41, 156, 158)

Western plane tree (1882) (14)