Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.

Read more about Hairy Nightshade at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

Mistaken interpretations of Cronquist's 1991 treatment of Solanum (e.g. by Kartesz 1999) have given rise to the incorrect belief that only S. physalifolium is found in North America. True S. physalifolium is present in the western United States, S. sarrachoides in the Southeast, per Weakley's Flora (2022)

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum physalifolium   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Solanum sarrachoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH A revision of the Morelloid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in North and Central America and the Caribbean (Knapp et al., 2019)

Solanum sarrachoides

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Solanum physalifolium var. nitidibaccum

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Solanum physalifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-012:

Solanum sarrachoides   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR) Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Solanum sarachoides

COMMON NAME:
Hairy Nightshade, Viscid Nightshade

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Gill Newberry    gn09_s_sarrachoides

September        

Corolla white, 7-11mm broad, the lobes spreading, anthers connivent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

Gill Newberry    gn09_s_sarrachoides_plant

September        

Viscid [sticky], unarmed annual, usually freely branching, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solanum sarrachoides   FAMILY Solanaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum physalifolium   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solanum sarrachoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH A revision of the Morelloid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in North and Central America and the Caribbean (Knapp et al., 2019)
Solanum sarrachoides

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Solanum physalifolium var. nitidibaccum

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solanum physalifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-012:
Solanum sarrachoides   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR) Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Solanum sarachoides