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
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Read more about Hairy Nightshade at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Mistaken interpretations of Cronquist's 1991 treatment of Solanum (e.g. by Kartesz 1999) have given rise to the incorrect belief that only S. physalifolium is found in North America. True S. physalifolium is present in the western United States, S. sarrachoides in the Southeast, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
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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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).
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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
3547
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: South America
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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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