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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Nightshade Family
  7. Devil's and Angel's Trumpets
  8. Jimsonweeds

genus

Jimsonweeds

Datura

Traits
Includes
4 native 3 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Sacred Datura native
  • Jimsonweed introduced
  • Downy Thorn-apple native
  • Desert Thorn-apple native
  • Metel Devil's Trumpet introduced
  • Long-spined Thorn-apple present
  • Oak-leaved Thorn-apple native
  • Latin Thorn-apple
  • Pruinose Thorn-apple
  • Datura kymatocarpa
  • Datura reburra

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Shrubs
Plant type
Annual Perennial Shrub Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native jimsonweeds All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Downy Thorn-apple Datura innoxia caterpillars 7 food 9 flowers 3
  • Desert Thorn-apple Datura discolor caterpillars 5 hosts 2 food 4 flowers 5
  • Sacred Datura Datura wrightii caterpillars 5 hosts 1 food 7 flowers 38 shelter 1
  • Oak-leaved Thorn-apple Datura quercifolia caterpillars 4 food 4 flowers 2

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