SOLANACE^E 



SOLANACE^ NIGHTSHADE FAMILY 



Datura Stramonium, L. 



White, striped with purple or blue Thorn-apple, 



Jamestown Weed, 



July-September Jimson Weed, 



Peru Apple, 

 Devil's Apple, 

 Devil's Trumpet, 

 Stinkweed, 

 Fireweed. 



Datura: altered from the Arabic name. 

 Stramonium: old name for the plant. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: waste grounds, door yards, 

 roadsides in town. 



THE PLANT: erect, one foot high or higher; the stem with- 

 out hairs or the young part with few, soft hairs. 



THE LEAVES: alternate; thin; ovate; acute or tapering to 

 a point at the apex; mostly narrowed at the base; angu- 

 larly coarse toothed; on slender stems. 



THE FLOWERS: trumpet-shaped, about four inches long, 

 much longer than the light green calyx. 



THE FRUIT: a capsule, covered with stout prickles of 

 which the longest are at the tip. 



A malodorous, sprawling weed, that has a heavy stem 

 and thin leaves, ovate and coarsely toothed. The large, 

 white flowers are trumpet-shaped, the corolla deep cut and 

 waved around the edge. Later the flowers give place to 

 large, ovoid, green fruit, with stout prickles of varying 

 length. 



From this plant is obtained a valuable drug. 



Five other members of the Nightshade Family have been 

 reported. 



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