Jimsonweed

(Datura stramonium)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect, stocky, many-branched herb

Root anatomy: Lengthy fibrous root network extending from taproot

Leaf anatomy: Leaves alternately arranged, simple, ovate, acute tips, margins toothed with large triangular teeth

Reproduction: Flowers large, funnelform, flowers with thin extensions at petal fuse margins, white or purple in color; spiny capsule fruit, light brown when mature

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}