Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness

Presented in Association with the
Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences

Solanaceae
(Nightshade Family)


The Solanaceae Family members are herbaceous, have alternate leaves, connate petals, flower parts in fives and do not have milky sap. Many are poisonous. The ovary is two celled.

Calibrachoa parviflora (Seaside Petunia)
Chamaesaracha arida (Five Eyes)
Chamaesaracha sordida (Hairy Five eyes)
Datura quercifolia (Oak Leaf Thorn Apple)
Datura stramonium (Jimsonweed)
Datura wrightii (Jimsonweed)
Lycium andersonii (Anderson's Wolfberry)
Lycium pallidum (Pale Wolfberry)
Nicotiana attenuata (Desert Tobacco)
Nicotiana obtusifolia (Desert Tobacco)
Physalis fendleri (Ivy Leaf Ground Cherry)
Physalis neomexicana (New Mexico Ground Cherry)
Physalis solanacea (Netted Globe Cherry)
Solanum dimidiatum (Western Horse Nettle)
Solanum elaeagnifolium (Silverleaf or Purple Nightshade)
Solanum jamesii (Wild Potato)
Solanum ptychanthum (Black Nightshade)
Solanum setigeroides (Melonleaf Nightshade)
Solanum stoloniferum (Fendler Wild Potato)
Solanum rostratum (Buffalo Bur)


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