Plant names
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-11-05. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-06-01.
The section on Robin Hood-related plant names includes information on folk-names of plants, plant variety (trade) names and a list of secondary literature.
Specific plant names
So far 18 Robin Hood-related plant names have been entered at IRHB. There are at least twice that number.
- Auricula Robin Hood Stripe
- Hosta Friar Tuck
- Hosta Little John
- Hosta Maid Marian
- Hosta Merry Men
- Hosta Robin Hood
- Hosta Robin of Loxley
- Hosta Sheriff of Nottingham
- Hosta Sir Richard
- Robin Hood - Geranium robertianum
- Robin Hood - Lychnis flos-cuculi
- Robin Hood - Silene dioica
- Robin Hood and his men
- Robin Hood and his sheep
- Robin Hood rose
- Robin Hood's feather
- Robin Hood's hatband
- Robin Hood, Scarlet and John
Lists
- The Hosta Helper: Robin Hood Series
- N.E.D., vol. VIII, pt. I, p. 736, s.n. Robin Hood, sb., 3 and 5. Less than a handful of quotations.
Also see