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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Solanum ptychanthum
FAMILY
Solanaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum ptycanthum
FAMILY
Solanaceae
LESS THAN (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 165-05-009?:
Solanum americanum
FAMILY
Solanaceae
LESS THAN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Solanum nigrum
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Solanum ptycanthum
COMMON NAME:
American Black Nightshade
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Gill Newberry gn05_s_americanum_flowers
May
The corolla has 5 reflexed segments and is only about 1/4" across, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Roxanna Martin rlm52910_224
May Spartanburg County SC
Usually fewer than 6 flowers per umbel, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm0407e_35
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0407e_36
July Greenville County SC
Fruiting pedicels deflexed (vs. erect in S. americanum), per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm0407x_26
July Greenville County SC
Calyx lobes adherent or spreading in mature fruit (occasionally ~ reflexed), per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm0408e_37
August Greenville County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm140822_914
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
A thornless plant with triangular-ovate leaves that may have rounded teeth, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm140823_081b
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Inflorescence umbellate, pedicels and peduncles remaining slender, per Weakley's Flora.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_solanum_ptychanthum_2
August
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JK Marlow s040823_d
August Greenville County SC
Downtown Greenville
Leaves irregularly blunt-toothed or almost entire, long-petioled, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Gill Newberry gn09_solanum_americanum
September
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JK Marlow jkm0410g_23
October Greenville County SC
Roadside