Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Viburnum opulus L.

Family: Caprifoliaceae

Origin: native & introduced

Common names:

Cherry wood [Cherry-wood] (1900-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156, 158)

Cramp bark [Cramp-bark] (1869-1923) (5, 49, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 92, 156)

Cramp-bark tree (1900) (158)

Cranberry (1913) (5)

Cranberry bush (1852) (47)

Cranberry tree [Cranberry-tree] (1895-1923) (2, 63, 72, 107, 130, 131, 156, 158)

Dog-elder (1923?, obsolete by 1923) (156)

Dog-rowan tree [Dog rowan tree] (1900-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156, 158)

European cranberry bush [European cranberrybush, European cranberry-bush] (1923-Present) (50, 109, 138)

European cranberry viburnum (1942) (155)

Gadrise (1900-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156, 158)

Gaiter tree [Gaiter-tree] (1900-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156, 158)

Gattan tree (1923?, obsolete by 1923) (156)

Gatten (1900-1913) (5, 158)

Grouseberry [Grouse-berry (1923?, obsolete by 1923) (156)

Guelder-rose [Guelder rose] (1840-1919) (19, 107)

Gueldres-rose (1900) (158)

High cranberry (1869-1923) (49, 52, 53, 54, 58, 59, 61, 92, 156)

High cranberry bark (1876) (92)

High-bush cranberry [Highbush cranberry] (1806-1986, Meriwether Lewis) (3, 4, 35, 37, 52, 57, 73, 112, 156, 158)

Love-roses [Love roses, Love rose] (1900-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156, 158)

Marsh elder (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

May-rose [May rose] (1900-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156, 158)

Nepin-minan (1806-1919, Chipewa for summer berry) (35, 37)

Nipi minan (1919, Cree) (107)

Obier (1900, French) (158)

Ople tree [Ople-tree (1923?, obsolete by 1923) (156)

Pembina (1919) (37, 107)

Pimbina (1923) (156)

Pincushion tree [Pincushion-tree] (1900-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156, 158)

Red elder (1900-1923, misapplied) (5, 156, 158)

Rose elder [Rose-elder] (1876-1923) (5, 92, 156, 158)

Snowball [Snow ball] (1840-1923) (5, 19, 135, 156)

Snowball bush [Snowball-bush] (1900, in cultivation) (158)

Snowball tree (1919) (107)

Squaw bush [Squaw-bush] (1876-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 92, 156, 158)

Wasserhollder (1900, German) (158)

Wasserschwelke (1900, German) (158)

Water elder (1900-1923) (156, 158)

White dogwood [White dog-wood] (1900-1923, England, misapplied) (5, 156, 158)

White elder (1900-1913) (5, 158)

Whitten tree [Whitten-tree] (1876-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 92, 107, 156, 158)

Wild guelder-rose [Wild guelder rose] (1899-1923) (5, 63, 156, 158)

Witch-hobble [Witch hobble] (1900-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156, 158)

Witch-hopple [Witch hopple] (1900-1923?, obsolete by 1923) (5, 156, 158)

Wuchipoquameneash (1919, Narragansett) (107)

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