Taxon: Solanum rostratum Dunal

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

HI°, ID*°, OR*, WA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• beaked-sandbur   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• buffalo-berry   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  
• buffalo-bur   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• horned nightshade   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• horse-nettle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Kansas thistle   (Source: F GPlains ) – English
  
• pincushion nightshade   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• prickly nightshade   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• spiny nightshade   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Stachel-Nachtschatten   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• taggborre   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust; J Adel BG 4:110. 1981; Ann Mo BG 61:858. 1974)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Montana, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Mexico [n. & c.]

• widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• D'Arcy, W. G. 1974. Solanum and its close relatives in Florida. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 61:858.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Levin, R. A. et al. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among the "spiny solanums" Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum, Solanaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 93:157–169.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Nee, M. 1999. Synopsis of Solanum in the New World. In: Nee, M. et al., eds., Solanaceae IV: advances in biology and utilization. 319.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Symon, D. E. 1981. A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 4:1–367.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. [= S. cornutum Lam.].
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Whalen, M. D. 1979. Taxonomy of Solanum section Androceras. Gentes Herb. 11:397.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Solanum rostratum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Solanum rostratum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Solanum rostratum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Solanum cornutum auct.
  

Check other web resources for Solanum rostratum Dunal:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Solanaceae Source: A global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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