Datura innoxia |
Datura wrightii |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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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