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angel's-trumpet, downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, pricklyburr

angel trumpet, angel's trumpet, jimson weed, sacred datura, sacred thorn-apple

Habit Herbs perennial, to 10 dm, roots tuberous. Herbs perennial, to 12 dm, roots tuberous.
Stems

usually villous-pubescent, sometimes glabrous.

usually canescent, sometimes glabrescent.

Leaf

blades ovate, to 22 × 16 cm, margins entire or irregularly sinuate-dentate, surfaces villous to glabrescent, (trichomes spreading, often more dense along veins, sometimes glandular).

blades ovate, to 22 × 16 cm, margins entire or irregularly sinuate-dentate, abaxial surface canescent (especially along veins), hairs appressed or curved, sometimes glandular, adaxial surface puberulent to glabrescent.

Flowers

calyx villous along veins, hairs spreading, tube cylindric, 5-toothed;

corolla white, sometimes lavender- or purple-tinged, funnelform, 10–22 cm, sparsely hairy, glabrescent, acuminate lobes alternating with lobules of similar size.

calyx canescent along veins, tube cylindric, 5-toothed;

corolla white, sometimes tinged pale lavender, broadly funnelform, usually puberulent along veins, 14–26 cm, acuminate lobes alternating with smaller lobules.

Capsules

pendent, irregularly dehiscent, pericarp fleshy, hairy, with prickles 10 mm;

calyx remnant slightly accrescent.

pendent, irregularly dehiscent, pericarp fleshy, puberulent, with prickles usually less than 10 mm;

calyx remnant slightly accrescent.

Seeds

brown, 4–6 mm, convex marginal ridge present, testa smooth;

caruncle present.

brown, 4–6 mm, convex marginal ridge present, testa smooth;

caruncle present.

2n

= 24.

= 24.

Datura innoxia

Datura wrightii

Phenology Flowering Jul–Oct. Flowering Jun–Oct.
Habitat Streamsides, road and trail margins, waste places, desert shrublands, grasslands. Streamsides, irrigation ditches, road and trail margins, waste places, desert and desert-margin shrublands, grasslands.
Elevation 0–2000 m. (0–6600 ft.) 0–2100 m. (0–6900 ft.)
Distribution
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AL; AR; CT; DC; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; WI; WV; ON; QC; SK; Mexico; Central America; West Indies; n South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) [Introduced nearly worldwide]
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AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; CT; FL; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; TX; UT; VA; WA; WI; WV; WY; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora) [Introduced nearly worldwide]
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Discussion

Datura innoxia is native to Texas and possibly New Mexico. Elsewhere in the flora area, it is widely introduced as an ornamental and, inadvertently, as a weed.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Datura wrightii has been introduced worldwide both as an ornamental and unintentionally. In the flora area, it is native in Texas and possibly New Mexico. The combination D. innoxia subsp. quinquecuspida (Torrey) A. S. Barclay is an invalidly published synonym of D. wrightii.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 14. FNA vol. 14.
Parent taxa Solanaceae > Datura Solanaceae > Datura
Sibling taxa
D. ceratocaula, D. discolor, D. ferox, D. metel, D. quercifolia, D. stramonium, D. wrightii
D. ceratocaula, D. discolor, D. ferox, D. innoxia, D. metel, D. quercifolia, D. stramonium
Synonyms D. meteloides D. metel var. quinquecuspida
Name authority Miller: Gard. Dict. ed. 8, Datura no. 5. (1768) — (as inoxia) Regel: Gartenflora 8: 193, plate 260. (1859)
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