Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Pulsatilla patens (L.) P. Mill. ssp. multifida (Pritz.) Zamels

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Anemone ludoviciana Nutt., Anemone multifida (Pritz.) Zamels, non Poir., Anemone nuttalliana DC., Anemone patens L., Anemone patens L. var. multifida Pritz., Anemone patens L. var. nuttalliana (DC.) Gray, Anemone patens L. var. nuttalliana Gray, Anemone patens L. var. wolfgangiana (Bess. ex Richards) Trauvtr. & Mey ex F. Kurtz, Anemone patens L. var. wolfgangiana Koch, Anemone patens var nuttalliana Gray, Anemone patens var. wolfgangiana (Bess.) Koch, Pulsatilla hirsutissima (Pursh) Britton, Pulsatilla ludoviciana (Nutt.) Heller, Pulsatilla ludoviciana Heller, Pulsatilla nuttalliana (DC.) Spreng., Pulsatilla patens (L.) P. Mill. ssp. hirsutissima (Pursh) Zamels

Common names:

American pasqueflower [American pasque-flower] (1923-1942) (138, 155, 157, 158)

American pulsatilla (1892-1929) (6, 49, 157, 158)

Apium risus (1878, Laughing parsley, old name, said to cause laughing and foolishness and convulsions by poisonous qualities) (86)

April-fools [April fools, April-fool] (1893-1929, Rockford IL, possibly becuase it flowers around April 1 and often is snowed under) (74, 157, 158)

Badger (1896, WI) (76)

Badgerweed [Badger-weed] (1900-1929) (157, 158)

Crocus [Crocuses] (1892-1933) (6, 74, 106, 126, 127)

Cut-leaf anemone [Cutleaf anemone] (Present) (50)

Easter-flower [Easter flower] (1900-1929) (157, 158)

Gogeda'djibûg (1928, Chippewa) (40)

Goslin weed (1892) (6)

Gosling (1893-1929, MN) (74, 157, 158)

Hartshorn plant (1892-1929) (6, 74, 157, 158)

Headache plant [Head-ache plant] (1893-1929, MN) (74, 157, 158)

Mayflower [May flower, May-flower] (1892-1929) (6, 157, 158)

Nuttall's pasqueflower [Nuttall's pasque flower, Nuttall's pasque-flower] (1878-1929) (86, 157, 158)

Pasque flower [Pasqueflower, Pasque-flower] (1892-1986) (3, 4, 6, 40, 49, 63, 72, 82, 86, 106, 109, 126, 127, 131, 148, 157)

Prairie anemone (1900-1929) (157, 158)

Prairie crocus (1900-1930) (106, 157, 158)

Prairie-flower [Prairie flower] (1892) (6)

Prairie-smoke [Prairie smoke] (1893, MI) (74)

Pulsatilla polyanthes violacea, anemones folio (1739, Breyn. cent.) (165)

Rock-lily [Rock lily, Rock lilis] (1896, WI) (76)

Spreading anemone (1923) (138)

Spreading pasqueflower (1942) (155)

Wild crocus (1896-1929, Madison WI) (76, 157, 158)

Wild pasqueflower [Wild pasque flower] (1895) (2)

Windflower [Wind flower] (1896, Madison WI) (76)

Woolly-leaf anemone [Woolly-leaved anemone] (1807) (165)