Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Solanum rostratum Dunal

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Androcera rostrata (Dunal) Rydb., Solanum cornutum auct. non Lam.

Common names:

Beaked nightshade (1899-1923) (5, 131, 156, 158)

Buffalo bur [Buffalo-bur, Buffalo burr] (1894-1986) (3, 4, 5, 56, 62, 70, 75, 80, 85, 93, 95, 97, 114, 122, 125, 156, 158)

Buffalobur nightshade (1942-Present) (50, 155)

Horned nightshade (1942) (155)

Kansas thistle (1898-1986) (4, 77)

Potato-bug plant [Potato bug plant] (1912, original host of Colorado potato beetle) (62)

Prickly nightshade (1912-1931) (5, 62, 125, 156)

Prickly potato (1912-1923) (5, 62, 156)

Sand bur [Sand-bur] (1899-1936) (5, 63, 72, 93, 156, 158)

Texas nettle (1897-1923) (62, 145, 156)

Texas thistle (1899, SD) (131)

Yellow nightshade (1923) (156)