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 sarrachoides   FAMILY Solanaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum physalifolium   FAMILY Solanaceae

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

Solanum sarrachoides

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 sarrachoides

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Solanum physalifolium var. nitidibaccum

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Solanum physalifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-012:

Solanum sarrachoides   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR) Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Solanum sarachoides

 

COMMON NAME:
Hairy Nightshade, Viscid Nightshade


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image of Solanum sarrachoides, Hairy Nightshade, Viscid Nightshade

Gill Newberry    gn09_s_sarrachoides

September        

Corolla white, 7-11mm broad, the lobes spreading, anthers connivent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Solanum sarrachoides, Hairy Nightshade, Viscid Nightshade

Gill Newberry    gn09_s_sarrachoides_plant

September        

Viscid [sticky], unarmed annual, usually freely branching, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

 

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum physalifolium   FAMILY Solanaceae

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

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 sarrachoides

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Solanum physalifolium var. nitidibaccum

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solanum physalifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-012:
Solanum sarrachoides   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR) Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Solanum sarachoides

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3547

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: South America

Rare

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stems and leaves unarmed

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Green
Berry

 

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