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Datura stramonium (moonflower; jimsonweed; Jamestown weed; mad apple; stinkwort; thorn apple)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Datura stramonium, known by the common names Jimson weed or Devil's snare, is a plant in the nightshade family. It is believed to have originated in Mexico, but has now become naturalized in many other regions. Other common names for D. stramonium include thornapple and moon flower, and it has the Spanish name toloache. Other names for the plant include hell's bells,devil’s trumpet, devil’s weed, tolguacha, Jamestown weed, stinkweed, locoweed, pricklyburr, and devil’s cucumber.
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Infraspecies

Datura stramonium var. chalybaea
Datura stramonium var. godronii
Datura stramonium var. stramonium
Datura stramonium var. tatula

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  All members of this genus contain narcotics and are very poisonous, even in small doses;
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [2]  Moths
Scent [2]  The whole plant gives off a nauseating stench.
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  The growing plant is said to protect neighbouring plants from insects; The juice of the fruits is applied to the scalp to cure dandruff and falling hair;
Height [2]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry
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Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Consumers

Shelter for 
Scalopus aquaticus (Eastern Mole)[6]
Tenodera aridifolia (Chinese mantid)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 7New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 8Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 9Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 10Leptonycteris nivalis, Adele Pfrimmer Hensley and Kenneth T. Wilkins, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 307, pp. 1-4 (1988)
♦ 11Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 12Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0