The Vascular Plants of Iowa: An Annotated Checklist and Natural History

Index of Common Names

Index ofCommon Names The column on the left contains, in alphabetic order, all the common names of the species from the checklist. Knowing the common name, one can find the associated species binomial in the right column and the family name in the middle column. The letter following the hyphen at the end of the family name is an abbreviation for the major taxon which includes that family: P =Pteridophytes G =Gymnosperms D =Angiosperms: Dicotyledons M = Angiosperms: Monocotyledons With this information, one can find the species description in the annotated checklist since, within the major taxa, the checklist is arranged in alphabetic order by family, genus, and species names. COMMON NAME Adder1s-tongue, northern Agrimony, soft swamp tall Alder, speckled Alfalfa yellow Alkanet Alumroot Alyssum, hoary sweet Amaranth, green American pennyroyal Anemone, Canada Carolina false rue rue tall wood Angelica Anise root Annual morning glory Apple Apple of Peru Apple, hedge wild balsam Arbor vitae Arrow arum Arrow-grass, common slender Arrowwood downy southern Artichoke, Jerusalem Ash, black blue green mountain prickly red wafer Index of Common Names FAMILY OPHIOGLOSSACEAE-P ROSACEAE-D ROSACEAE-D ROSACEAE-D BETULACEAE-D FABACEAE-D FABACEAE-D BORAGINACEAE-D SAXIFRAGACEAE-D BRASSICACEAE-D BRASSICACEAE-D AMARANTHACEAE-D LAMIACEAE-D RANUNCULACEAE-D RANUNCULACEAE-D RANUNCULACEAE-D RANUNCULACEAE-D RANUNCULACEAE-D RANUNCULACEAE-D APIACEAE-D APIACEAE-D CONVOLVULACEAE-D ROSACEAE-D SOLANACEAE-D MORACEAE-D CUCURBITACEAE-D CUPRESSACEAE-G ARACEAE-M JUNCAGINACEAE-M JUNCAGINACEAE-M CAPRIFOLIACEAE-D CAPRIFOLIACEAE-D CAPRIFOLIACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D OLEACEAE-D OLEACEAE-D OLEACEAE-D ROSACEAE-D RUTACEAE-D OLEACEAE-D RUTACEAE-D ACCEPTED BINOMIAL Ophioglossum pusillum Agrimonia pubescens Agrimonia parviflora Agrimonia gryposepala Alnus rugosa Medicago sativa Medicago falcata Anchusa azurea Heuchera richardsonii Berteroa incana Lobularia maritima Ama.ranfhus hybridus Hedeoma pulegioides Anemone canadensis Anemone caroliniana Isopyrum biternatum Thalictrum thalictroides Anemone virginiana Anemone quinquefolia Angelica atropurpurea Osmorhiza longistylis Ipomoea purpurea Malus sylvestris Nicandra physalodes Maclura pomifera Echinocystis lobata Thuja occidentalis Peltandra virginica Triglochin maritimum Triglochin palustris Viburnum moZZe Viburnum rafinesquianum Viburnum den tatum Helianthus tuberosus Fraxinus nigra Fraxinus quadranguZata Fraxinus pennsylvanica var. lanceolata Sorbus aucuparia Zanthoxylum americanum Fraxinus pennsylvanica Ptelea trifoliata 261 Ash, cont. white Asparagus, garden Aspen, big-tooth quaking Aster, aromatic arrow-leaved big-leaved blue wood crooked stem Drummond's false flat-topped flax-leaved forked hairy heath New England Ontario panicled rayless ricebutton rush Schreber's side-flowered silky sky-blue smooth blue swamp white willow Avens, purple rough spring white yellow Bachelor's button Bamboo, Japanese Baneberry, red white Barberry, European Japanese Barley little 262 OLEACEAE-D LILIACEAE-M SALICACEAE-D SALICACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ROSACEAE-D ROSACEAE-D ROSACEAE-D ROSACEAE-D ROSACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D POLYGONACEAE-D RANUNCULACEAE-D RANUNCULACEAE-D BERBERIDACEAE-D BERBERIDACEAE-D POACEAE-M POACEAE-M Fraxinus americana Asparagus officinalis Populus grandidentata Populus tremuloides Aster oblongifolius Aster sagittifolius Aster macrophyllus Aster cordifolius Aster prenanthoides Aster drummondi i Boltonia asteroides Aster umbel latus Aster linariifolius Aster furcatus Aster pi losus Aster ericoides Aster novae-angliae Aster ontarionis Aster lanceolatus Aster brachyactis Aster dumosus Aster junciformis Aster schreberi Aster lateriflorus Aster sericeus Aster azureus Aster laevis Aster puniceus Aster umbel latus Aster praeal tus Geum triflorum Geum laciniatum Geum vernum Geum canadense Geum aleppicum var. strictum Centaurea cyanus Polygonum cuspidatum Actaea rubra Actaea pachypoda Berberis vulgaris Berberis thunbergii Hordeum vulgare Hordeum pusillum Index of Common Names Barley, cont. squirrel-tail Basil Basswood white Beaked hazel Bearberry Beardtongue, large-flowered pale Bedstraw, bog northern rough shining small stiff sweet-scented yellow Beech, blue Beefsteak plant Beggar-ticks swamp tall Beggar's-lice Bellflower, marsh tall Bellwort sessile-leaved Bent, creeping upland Bergamot, wild Berry, buffalo partridge Bindweed, black European low Birch, canoe paper river swamp yellow Bishop's cap Bittersweet European Index of Common Names POACEAE-M LAMIACEAE-D TILIACEAE-D TILIACEAE-D BETULACEAE-D ERICACEAE-D SCROPHULARIACEAE-D SCROPHULARIACEAE-D RUBIACEAE-D RUBIACEAE-D RUBIACEAE-D RUBIACEAE-D RUBIACEAE-D RUBIACEAE-D RUBIACEAE-D RUBIACEAE-D BETULACEAE-D LAMIACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D ASTERACEAE-D BORAGINACEAE-D CAMPANULACEAE-D CAMPANULACEAE-D LILIACEAE-M LILIACEAE-M POACEAE-M POACEAE-M LAMIACEAE-D ELAEAGNACEAE-D RUBIACEAE-D POLYGONACEAE-D CONVOLVULACEAE-D CONVOLVULACEAE-D...