Several workers helped with selecting plants to be included and common names for them. For the most part, the common names are those used in Kelsey and Dayton, Standardized Plant Names (SPN).[8] However, common names of some species are so different and are so firmly entrenched in common usage that the names given in SPN could not be used in this list. An example is “broomsedge” for _Andropogon virginicus_. In SPN it is “yellowsedge bluestem,” a name never heard in the area this list serves. =ACKNOWLEDGMENTS= Appreciation is expressed to those who aided in selecting both plants and their common names: The late F. W. Albertson, Biology Department, Fort Hays Kansas State College L. E. Anderson, Agronomy Department, Kansas State University, now at University of Missouri, Columbia M. D. Atkins, S.C.S., Lincoln, Nebraska J. K. Greig, Jr., Department of Horticulture and Forestry, Kansas State University C. V. Hall, Department of Horticulture and Forestry, Kansas State University L. C. Hulbert, Division of Biology, Kansas State University R. A. Keen, Department of Horticulture and Forestry, Kansas State University J. L. Launchbaugh, Kansas Branch Agricultural Experiment Station, Hays, Kansas E. L. Mader, Agronomy Department, Kansas State University C. M. Schumacher, S.C.S., Lincoln, Nebraska G. W. Tomanek, Biology Department, Fort Hays Kansas State College H. D. Wilkins, Agronomy Department, Kansas State University Special thanks go to Dr. John L. Launchbaugh for carefully editing the final draft. FOOTNOTES: [1] Contribution No. 692, Department of Agronomy, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan. [2] Professor Emeritus and Agronomist, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station: and Instructor in Range and Pasture Management. [3] Kelsey, H. P. and W. A. Dayton. 1942. Standardized Plant Names. J. Horace McFarland Co., Harrisburg, Pa. [4] Hitchcock, A. S. 1951. Manual of Grasses of the U.S. USDA Misc. Publication 200 (Revised). [5] Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray’s Manual of Botany, 8th ed. American Book Co., New York. [6] Gleason, H. A. 1952. The New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora. New York Botanical Garden (3 volumes). [7] Harrington, H. D. 1954. Manual of the Plants of Colorado. Sage Books, Denver. [8] Ibid. =INDEX TO COMMON NAMES= Genera only are listed in this index except where the common species name differs from the common name of its genus and does not include the latter. Scientific names are also shown.