horsenettle, Carolina
| COMMON NAME: | Horsenettle, Carolina | |
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| SCIENTIFIC NAME: | Solanum carolinense | |
| FAMILY: | Solanaceae | |
| LIFECYCLE: | Perennial | |
| FEATURES: | Perennial solanaceous species. White to purple flowers. Produces yellow tomato-like fruit. Leaves more long than wide. Spines along primary veins of leaves and stem. Plant rigid. |
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| DESCRIPTION: | Rhizomatous perennial regrowing from old root stock. Common in pastures and old abandoned fields. In the same family as tomato, so possess similar characteristics such as a clammy appearance, single alternate leaves, and five petal flowers. |
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