Jimsonweed

Datura stramonium

Русское название: Дурман обыкновенный

A highly toxic annual with trumpet-shaped flowers and spiky seed capsules. Tropane alkaloids can cause severe delirium and cardiac complications. It is not a safe psychoactive or medicinal plant.

✳ Scientific names are used to reduce confusion between local names.

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Safety information

Do not use photographs or online summaries to identify wild plants for eating or medicinal use. Some poisonous plants resemble edible species and even handling certain species can cause harm. If poisoning is suspected, contact your local poison service or urgent medical care. Do not wait for symptoms.

Poison Control: poisonous plants (US) ↗

◎Distribution

Origin debated; widespread in temperate regions

♧Habitat

Waste ground, roadsides and disturbed gardens

✺Identification limits

Images and brief descriptions are for learning, not for reliably identifying a specimen. Take particular care with poisonous plants and mushrooms.

Further reading and image creditsDatura stramonium — Wikipedia overview ↗Photo, author and license — Wikimedia Commons ↗

Identification is never guaranteed by a photo. Scientific names are used to reduce confusion between local names.

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