Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Quercus rubra L.

Family: Fagaceae

Origin: native

Common names:

Black oak (1900-1923, misapplied) (156, 158)

Butter oak (1649) (46)

Buude-hi 1919, Omaha-Ponca) (37)

Champion (1923) (156)

Champion oak (1882-1923) (14, 158)

Common red oak (1923) (138)

Gray oak (1923) (156)

Nahata-pahat (1919, Pawnee, red tree) (37)

Northern red oak (Present) (50)

Red oak [Red oake] (1629-1937) (2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 19, 33, 37, 40, 41, 46, 58, 61, 65, 72, 78, 82, 92, 93, 95, 97, 106, 112, 113, 122, 124, 135, 156, 158)

Spanish oak (1898-1923, Southwest MO) (78, 156, 158)

Uta (1919, Dakaota, Uta-hu translates as Oak tree) (37)

Wi'sugi'mitigo'mic (1928, Chippewa, bitter oak) (40)

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