Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Rumex patientia L.

Origin: introduced

Scientific Synonyms: Rumex patienca

Common names:

Garden dock (1840) (19)

Garden patience (1876-1923) (5, 92, 107, 156, 158)

Herb patience (1919-1949) (107, 109)

Monk's rhubarb (1900-1923) (5, 107, 156, 158)

Passions (1876-1923?, obsolete by 1923, verbal corruption) (5, 92, 156, 158)

Patience (1671-1932, cultivated by English colonists by 1671, Josselyn) (1, 19, 46, 92)

Patience dock (1897-Present) (50, 4, 3, 5, 72, 97, 107, 138, 145, 155, 156, 158)

Patientia (1640, Parkinson) (107 )

Rhabarbarum monachorum (1552, Tragus) (107 )

Spinach-dock (1949) (109)