OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solanum carolinense var. carolinense   FAMILY Solanaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum carolinense var. carolinense   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Solanum carolinense var. carolinense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)

Solanum carolinense var. carolinense

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-005:

Solanum carolinense   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Solanum carolinense

 

COMMON NAME:
Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle


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image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969    mpa_page_237

        

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970    swus_page_323

        

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

Gill Newberry    gn04_s_carolinense_fruits

April        

Fruit a 2-celled berry with many seeds, spherical, smooth turning wrinkled, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

JK Marlow    s000524_a

May    Greenville County    SC

Scattered but sharp prickles and leaves with shallow lobes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

JK Marlow    jkm190722_0105

July    Greenville County    SC

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

JK Marlow    jkm100821_447

August    Greenville County    SC

5-lobed, pale violet to white flowers, ~ 3/4" wide; yellow anthers prominent, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

JK Marlow    jkm100821_449

August    Greenville County    SC

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

JK Marlow    jkm150808_604

August    Watauga County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_solanum_carolinense_2

August        

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

Gill Newberry    gn09_copy_of_s_caro_2

September        

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

Gill Newberry    gn09_solanumense_carolin

September        

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

Gill Newberry    gn09_solanumense_carolin2

September        

Calyx tube 2-3mm long, calyx lobes acuminate, 3-6mm long depending on age, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

JK Marlow    jkm170914_0471

September    Henderson County    NC

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

JK Marlow    jkm170914_0472

September    Henderson County    NC

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

JK Marlow    jkm170914_0474

September    Henderson County    NC

Style greenish, glabrous, to 1.5cm long. Stigma dark green, per www.missouriplants.com (Tenaglia).

image of Solanum carolinense var. carolinense, Carolina Horsenettle, Ball-nettle

JK Marlow    jkm170914_0510

September    Henderson County    NC

The berries are yellow, 0.4"-0.6" wide, and deadly poisonous, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solanum carolinense var. carolinense   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum carolinense var. carolinense   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solanum carolinense var. carolinense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Solanum carolinense var. carolinense

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-005:
Solanum carolinense   FAMILY Solanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solanum carolinense

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1408

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Fields, gardens, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia (naturalized well beyond this area)

Common

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stems, and often leaves, prickly and/or spiny

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White to purple
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed calyx
5-parted rotate corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
Berry

 

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