OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solanum emulans   FAMILY Solanaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum ptycanthum   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Solanum emulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH A revision of the Morelloid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in North and Central America and the Caribbean (Knapp et al., 2019)

Solanum emulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Solanum ptychanthum

INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)

Solanum americanum

INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-009?:

Solanum americanum   FAMILY Solanaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Solanum nigrum

 

COMMON NAME:
Eastern Black Nightshade


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image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970    swus_page_325

        

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

Gill Newberry    gn05_s_americanum_flowers

May        

The corolla has 5 reflexed segments and is only about 1/4" across, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

Roxanna Martin    rlm52910_224

May    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231861436134880

July    Georgetown County?    SC

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

JK Marlow    jkm0407e_35

July    Greenville County    SC

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

JK Marlow    jkm0407e_36

July    Greenville County    SC

Fruiting pedicels deflexed (vs. erect in S. americanum), per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

JK Marlow    jkm0407x_26

July    Greenville County    SC

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

JK Marlow    jkm0408e_37

August    Greenville County    SC

Roadside

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

JK Marlow    jkm140822_914

August    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

A thornless plant with triangular-ovate leaves that may have rounded teeth, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

JK Marlow    jkm140823_081b

August    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_solanum_ptychanthum_2

August        

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

JK Marlow    s040823_d

August    Greenville County    SC

Downtown Greenville

Leaves irregularly blunt-toothed or almost entire, long-petioled, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

Gill Newberry    gn09_solanum_americanum

September        

image of Solanum emulans, Eastern Black Nightshade

JK Marlow    jkm0410g_23

October    Greenville County    SC

Roadside

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solanum emulans   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum ptycanthum   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solanum emulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH A revision of the Morelloid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in North and Central America and the Caribbean (Knapp et al., 2019)
Solanum emulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Solanum ptychanthum

INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Solanum americanum

INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-009?:
Solanum americanum   FAMILY Solanaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solanum nigrum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1410

Forb
Annual

Habitat: forests, roadsides, gardens, river banks, shores, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stems and leaves unarmed

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed calyx
5-parted rotate corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Lustrous black
Berry

 

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