Jepson Interchange: Manual Name Data Retrieval

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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	Trautvetteria caroliniensis
group	Eudicots
Family	Ranunculaceae
Family common name(s)	buttercup; butter-cup; crowfoot; crowfoots; larkspur; delphinium; ranunc
Genus common name(s)	trautvetteria; tassel-rue; tassel rue; tasselrue; tassle-rue; tassle rue; tasslerue; false bug-bane
Species common name(s)	Carolina trautvetteria; Carolina tassel-rue; Carolina tassel rue; Carolina tasselrue; Carolina tassle-rue; Carolina tassle rue; Carolina false bugbane; Carolina false bug-bane; Carolina bugbane; Caroline false bugbane; Caroline falsebugbane

Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets	western trautvetteria [var. occidentalis]; western false bugbane [var. occidentalis]; western false bug-bane [var. occidentalis]; western bugbane [var. occidentalis]
Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa	bugbane, bug-bane, bug bane, false bugbane are applied to multiple Ranunculaceae taxa

Notes	Carolina is a proper name, so upper case preferable
Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc	var. occidentalis (A. Gray) C.L. Hitchc.; var. borealis (H. Hara) T. Shimizu; Trautvetteria grandis Nutt.