Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Prunus americana Marsh.

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Prunus hyemalis Michx.

Common names:

American plum (1919-Present) (50, 82, 107, 137, 138, 155)

August plum (1919) (107)

Canada plum (1879-1923) (46, 156)

Common wild plum (1895) (2)

Eastern wild plum (1913, NM) (153)

Goose plum [Goose-plum] (1900-1923) (5, 107, 156, 158)

Hog plum [Hog-plum, Hog's plum] (1893-1923) (5, 74, 107, 156)

Honesta (1879) (46)

Horse plum [Horse-plum] (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

Ikwe'mic (Chippewa) (1928) (40)

Large yellow sweet plumb (1785) (8)

Meadow plum (1840) (19)

Native plum (1900-1913) (5, 158)

Plum (1894-1937) (112, 114)

Plum granite [Plum-granite] (1900-1923? obsolete by 1923, verbal corruption) (5, 156, 158)

Plumbs (1806-1879, William Clark, Patrick Gass) (35, 46)

Pomegranate (1923?, obsolete by 1923) (156)

Prunier d'Amerique (1857, French) (20)

Prunier de Virginie (1785, French) (8)

Red plum (1919) (107)

Sloe (1919) (107)

Wild goose plum (1892, Chestertown MD) (73)

Wild plum (1852-1986) (3, 4, 9, 22, 20, 37, 40, 47, 63, 72, 85, 95, 96, 101, 112, 113, 122, 130, 131, 137, 156)

Wild red plum (1900-1937) (5, 93, 97, 137, 156, 158)

Wild yellow plum (1900-1937) (5, 93, 97, 137, 156, 158)

Yellow plum (1919) (107)