Taxon: Solanum dimidiatum Raf.

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:

CA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• Carolina horse-nettle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Torrey's nightshade   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury, as Solanum torreyi)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide F CalifJep)
  

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View toxicology references for Solanum dimidiatum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas [s.-c.], Missouri [w.], Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Solanaceae source: a global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family (on-line resource).
• 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. 61:844.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Nee, M. 1999. Synopsis of Solanum in the New World. In: Nee, M. et al., eds., Solanaceae IV: advances in biology and utilization. 318.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas.
• Symon, D. E. 1981. A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 4:150.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Solanum dimidiatum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Solanum dimidiatum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Solanum torreyi A. Gray
  

Check other web resources for Solanum dimidiatum Raf.:

• 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
• 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:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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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