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 | Pedicularis groenlandica |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Orobanchaceae |
| Family common name(s) | orobanch; broomrape; broom-rape; broom rape; broom-rapes; ground-cone; ground cone; groundcone |
| Genus common name(s) | pedicularis; lousewort; louse-wort; louse wort |
| Species common name(s) | elephant's-head; elephant's head; elephant-head; elephant head; elephants' heads; elephant-heads; elephant heads; bull elephant's-head; bull elephant's head; pink elephant's-head; bull elephant-head; pink elephant's head; pink elephantheads; pink elephants; pink elephant; little pink elephant red elephant head; red elephants; little red elephant; little red elephants; little-red-elephants; little red elephant-head; purple elephant's head; elephant's-head pedicularis; elephant's head pedicularis; elephant-head pedicularis; elephanthead pedicularis; elephant's-head lousewort; elephant-head lousewort; elephant head lousewort; elephanthead lousewort; elephant‚Äüs-head wood-betony; Greenland lousewort; long-beaked pedicularis; long beaked pedicularis |
| | | | | Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | little elephants' heads is more commonly applied to Pedicularis attollens; elephantella is applied to multiple Pedicularis taxa; wood-betony, wood betony, woodbetony, bumble-bee plant, bumble bee plant, bumblebee plant, fernleaf are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| Common name(s), rejected | not recommended: Indian-warrior, Indian warrior, Indianwarrior |
| | | Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Scrophulariaceae s.l.; var. surrecta (Benth.) A. Gray |
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