=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= Page Index to common names 4 Grasses 18 Sedges, rushes, and related genera 27 Ferns and related genera 28 Other monocots 29 Legumes 30 Other dicot forbs 35 Woody plants 55 Common species names and their English meanings 60 =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 to place, even within rather limited areas. Frequently-occurring and widely-known species may have local names, or the same name may be used for several species. Common names, therefore, often fail to identify plants accurately. That makes it difficult to communicate about plants; the confusion may even discontinue attempts to convey ideas about the subject. Conversations may shift to a subject with an adequate common nomenclature. Scientific names are essential in formal writing. When common names are to be used, as in less formal publications, scientific names must also be given either at the place where the common ones first appear in the paper, in a footnote, or in an appended list. Only scientific names identify the species for all readers. In completely informal writing for a broad area, scientific names may be omitted. Since common names are so widely used, they should be used as uniformly as possible. The following common names are considered “standardized” for all writing in the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station and may also be used as a guide in teaching. A single common name is given to each plant listed if it has such a name.