Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Solanum carolinense L.

Origin: native

Common names:

Apple-of-Sodom [Apple of Sodom] (1900-1929) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Bull-nettle [Bull nettle] (1898-1929) (5, 49, 52, 53, 62, 75, 77, 156, 157, 158)

Carolina horse-nettle [Carolina horsenettle, Carolina horse nettle] (1986-Present) (4, 50)

Horse-nettle [Horse nettle] (1840-1977) (3, 1, 5, 19, 49, 52, 53, 56, 57, 62, 63, 70, 72, 80, 85, 92, 95, 97, 122, 145, 156, 157, 158)

Jatropha (1919) (52)

Radical (1894, WV) (75)

Radical-weed [Radical weed] (1900-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Sand briar [Sand-briar, Sand brier] (1898-1923) (5, 49, 53, 62, 75, 156)

Thorn-apple [Thornapple] (1923) (156)

Threadsaf (1898) (49)

Thread-soft [Tread soft, Treadsoft] (1898-1922) (49, 53, 62)

Tread-softly [Tread softly] (1913-1923) (5, 156)