| Taxon | Veratrum californicum var. californicum |
| group | Monocots |
| Family | Melanthiaceae |
| Family common name(s) | false hellebore; bunchflower |
| Genus common name(s) | veratrum; false-hellebore; false hellebore; falsehellebore; false-hellobore; false hellobore |
| Species common name(s) | California veratrum; California false-helleborne; California false helleborne; California falsehellebore; California corn-lily; California corn lily; California cornlily; California skunk-cabbage; California skunk cabbage; California skunkcabbage; California wild hellebore; Californian corn-lily; Californian corn lily; Californian skunk-cabbage; Californian skunk cabbage; western false-hellebore; western false hellebore; western corn-lily; western corn lily |
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| Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | tailed false-hellebore [var. caudatum]; tailed false hellebore [var. caudatum]; tailed wild hellebore [var. caudatum]; tailed skunk-cabbage [var. caudatum]; tailed skunk cabbage [var. caudatum]; Cascade false-hellebore [var. caudatum]; Cascade false hellebore [var. caudatum] |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | green veratrum, white false-hellebore, white false hellebore are applied to multiple Veratrum taxa; skunk-cabbage, skunk cabbage, skunkcabbage, corn lily, corn-lily, cornlily, hellebore, elever, eliber are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| Common name(s), rejected | not recommended: Indian poke |
| Notes | when Cascade is used as a proper name, upper case preferable |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Liliaceae s.l.; var. caudatum (A. Heller) C.L. Hitchc.; Veratrum caudatum A. Heller |
