Common (vernacular) names applied to California vascular plants
compiled by Elizabeth Painter
up to date as of May 1, 2016
Common names (also referred to as vernacular names) are applied differently at different times and places by different users. This list is compiled from many sources and is intended to be as comprehensive as possible. It is not intended to indicate which common name is correct or preferred. Please send comments about this page to Elizabeth Painter (beth.painter.48@gmail.com).
| Taxon | Apocynum cannabinum |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Apocynaceae |
| Family common name(s) | dogbane; dog-bane; dog bane; dogbanes; oleander |
| Genus common name(s) | dogbane; dog-bane; dog bane; dog's bane; dog's-bane; westernwall |
| Species common name(s) | hemp dogbane; hemp-dogbane; hemp dog-bane; hemp dog bane; dogbane hemp; California hemp dogbane; American hemp; Native American hemp; clasping-leaved hemp-dogbane; clasping-leaved hemp dogbane; clasping-leaved hemp; clasping leaved hemp; clasping dogbane; clasping-leaved dogbane; clasping-leaf dogbane; clasping leaf dogbane; claspingleaf dogbane; prairie dogbane; prairie dog-bane; Canadian hemp; Canada hemp; Choctaw root; Choctaw-root; Choctawroot; amy-root; amy root; General Marion's weed |
| | | | | Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | common dogbane, common dog's-bane, American dogbane; Canadian hemp, black hemp are applied to multiple Apocynum taxa; bitterroot, bitter-root, bitter root, true bitter-root, true bitter root, true bitterroot, American ipecac, milk ipecac, wild ipecac, colic-root, colicroot, colic root, rheumatism-weed, rheumatism weed, Indian hemp, milkweed, milk-weed, milk weed are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| Common name(s), rejected | not recommended: Indianhemp dogbane, Indian-hemp dogbane, Indian hemp dogbane, black Indian hemp, white Indian hemp, prairie Indian hemp, Indian hemp, Indian-hemp, Indianhemp, American-Indian hemp, Indian-physic |
| Notes | California, American, Canadian, Canada, Choctaw are proper names, so upper case preferable |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | var. glaberrimum A. DC.; Apocynum sibiricum Jacq. var. salignum (Greene) Fern. |
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