Technical Bulletin 117
Revised August 1969

Common Names
of a Selected List
of Plants

By

Kling L. Anderson and Clenton E. Owensby

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
Kansas State University
of Agriculture and Applied Science
Manhattan

Floyd W. Smith, Director

CONTENTS

Common Names of a Selected List of Plants[1]

Kling L. Anderson and Clenton E. Owensby[2]

Common names of plants often vary widely from place toplace, even within rather limited areas. Frequently-occurringand widely-known species may have local names, or the samename may be used for several species. Common names, therefore,often fail to identify plants accurately. That makes itdifficult to communicate about plants; the confusion may evendiscontinue attempts to convey ideas about the subject. Conversationsmay shift to a subject with an adequate commonnomenclature.

Scientific names are essential in formal writing. When commonnames are to be used, as in less formal publications, scientificnames must also be given either at the place where thecommon ones first appear in the paper, in a footnote, or in anappended list. Only scientific names identify the species for allreaders. In completely informal writing for a broad area,scientific names may be omitted.

Since common names are so widely used, they should beused as uniformly as possible. The following common namesare considered “standardized” for all writing in the KansasAgricultural Experiment Station and may also be used as aguide in teaching. A single common name is given to eachplant listed if it has such a name.

This list grew from an earlier Kansas list of grasses andlegumes that emphasized chiefly range and pasture plants.It is extended here to include most plant families and generathat occur in Kansas and many species that do not necessarilyoccur in Kansas but may be important or closely related tothose listed. Obviously, not all Kansas plants could be included,and therefore many minor plants have been omitted. Sp

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