Datura stramonium L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Solanaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Datura stramonium L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Annual, glabrous or the young parts sparingly pubescent; stem stout, 3-15 dm. high. Leaves thin, ovate, acute or acuminate, mostly narrowed at the base, 0.7-2 dm. long, irregularly sinuate-lobed, the lobes acute; flowers white, about 1 dm. high; calyx prismatic, less than one-half the length of the corolla; capsule ovoid, erect, densely prickly, about 5 cm. high.

  • Distribution

    Waste places, Great Bahama, Lignum Vitae Cay, Eleuthera and Acklin's Island : Bermuda ; temperate and tropical America ; West Indies ; Old World. Thorn-Apple. Washwoman's Bush.

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