Cephalanthus.—Buttonbush.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
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Cephalanthus occidentalis L.
Engl.: common buttonbush, button bush, button-willow, buttonwood, crane willow, globe flower, honey-bells, pond dogwood, swamp dogwood.
Deu.: Knopfbaum.
Sven.: bollbuske.
Pre-Linnaean: Cephalanthus foliis oppositis ternatisque, Cephalanthus foliis ternis, Platanocephalus tinifoliis ex adverso ternis, Scabiosa dendroides americana ternis foliis circa caulem ambientibus floribus ochroleucis, Valerianoides americana flore globoso pishaminis folio.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: The American Eclectic Dispensatory, by John King, 1854.
Classic texts: Rafinesque 1828-1830.
Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: Sayre 1917.
Classic texts: Cook 1869.
Classic texts: Boericke 1901.
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