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Your search found 24 taxa in the family Solanaceae, Nightshade family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Christmas-berry, Carolina Matrimony-vine
Look for it on shell middens, shell mounds, shelly sand dunes, brackish marshes, maritime sand spits
Rare
Native to Georgia & South Carolina (but not seen recently in SC)
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Common Name:
Apple-of-Peru, Shoo-fly-plant
Look for it in disturbed places, such as cultivated fields and roadsides
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Peru
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Common Name:
Dune Ground-cherry, Sand Ground-cherry, Walter's Ground-cherry
Look for it on dunes of sea-beaches, openings in maritime forests, sandhills (southward), and rarely inland as a waif in disturbed areas
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Clammy Ground-cherry
Look for it in disturbed areas, dry rocky woodlands, hammocks
Common (uncommon in Mountains, rare in Coastal Plain of GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Virginia Ground-cherry
Look for it in woodlands, glades, barrens, and disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in open woodlands, gardens and disturbed areas
Common in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Smooth Ground-cherry, Cutleaf Ground-cherry
Look for it in sandhills, disturbed areas, open woodlands, agricultural fields
Common (uncommon in GA Mtns & NC Piedmont, rare in SC Mtns)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on wooded slopes, in disturbed areas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bittersweet Nightshade, Deadly Nightshade
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare in NC
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Buffalo-bur Nightshade, Kansas-thistle
Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon
Native: western North America
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Common Name:
Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle
Look for it in fields, gardens, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia (naturalized well beyond this area)
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: South America
Common Name:
American Black Nightshade
Look for it in hammocks, disturbed areas
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Native to Georgia & South Carolina (introduced in NC)
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Common Name:
Eastern Black Nightshade
Look for it on roadsides, gardens, river banks, shores, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Hairy Nightshade
Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: South America
Look for it in suburban woodlands, disturbed areas
Non-native: Mexico & Central America
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Common Name:
Jerusalem-cherry
Rarely cultivated, perhaps not established
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
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Common Name:
Wetland Nightshade, Aquatic Soda Apple
Non-native: West Indies, Central America
Non-native: West Indies
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Common Name:
Tropical Soda-apple
Look for it in pastures
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Jimsonweed
Look for it in fields, pastures, disturbed areas, esp common in severely over-grazed pastures
Common
Non-native? presumably introduced from Mexico or Central America
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Common Name:
Garden Petunia
Look for it in disturbed areas, garden edges (it is common in cultivation, rare as a waif or persistent)
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont
Non-native: Argentina
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