Solanaceae FAMILY

Solanum carolinense

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

All parts of the plant are potentially poisonous[ 222 Title A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants. Eastern and Central N. America. Publication Author Foster. S. & Duke. J. A. Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. Year 1990 ISBN 0395467225 Description A concise book dealing with almost 500 species. A line drawing of each plant is included plus colour photographs of about 100 species. Very good as a field guide, it only gives brief details about the plants medicinal properties. ]. Fatalities have been reported with children[ 222 Title A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants. Eastern and Central N. America. Publication Author Foster. S. & Duke. J. A. Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. Year 1990 ISBN 0395467225 Description A concise book dealing with almost 500 species. A line drawing of each plant is included plus colour photographs of about 100 species. Very good as a field guide, it only gives brief details about the plants medicinal properties. ]. The fruits contain solanine alkaloids. Ingestion can cause nausea, vomiting, salivation, drowsiness, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, weakness, respiratory depression; in larger doses it may be fatal[ 293 Title Poisonous Plants of North Carolina Publication Author Website http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/poison.htm Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent concise but comprehensive guide to toxic plants that grow in N. Carolina. It lists even those plants that are of very low toxicity, including several well-known food plants such as carrots and potatoes. ].

Botanical Description

Solanum carolinense is a prickly, herbaceous perennial plant with erect, losely branched stems; it can grow around 30 - 120cm tall. The plant has an extensive root system with vertical taproots that can be 240cm long and creeping, horizontal roots that send up new shoots at intercals and can spread several metres from the taproots.[ 1093 Title Invasive Species Compendium Publication Author Website http://www.cabi.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An immense resource - in depth information on over 900 species of invasive plants (it also has information on animals, fungi etc). ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and source of materials. Solanum carolinense can spread widely by its roots and seed. It has spread from its original range in southeastern N. America to become a weed in many parts of Canada and the USA. It has also been spread by human activity to several other areas of the world, such as Australia and New Zealand, where it has become a weed[ 1093 Title Invasive Species Compendium Publication Author Website http://www.cabi.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An immense resource - in depth information on over 900 species of invasive plants (it also has information on animals, fungi etc). ]..

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeN. America - Washington to South Dakota, Minnesota, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick; south to California, northern Mexico, Texas and Florida

HabitatDry fields and waste ground, usually in sandy soils[ 4 Title A Modern Herbal. Publication Author Grieve. Publisher Penguin Year 1984 ISBN 0-14-046-440-9 Description Not so modern (1930's?) but lots of information, mainly temperate plants. , 222 Title A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants. Eastern and Central N. America. Publication Author Foster. S. & Duke. J. A. Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. Year 1990 ISBN 0395467225 Description A concise book dealing with almost 500 species. A line drawing of each plant is included plus colour photographs of about 100 species. Very good as a field guide, it only gives brief details about the plants medicinal properties. , 235 Title An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada Publication Author Britton. N. L. Brown. A. Publisher Dover Publications. New York. Year 1970 ISBN 0-486-22642-5 Description Reprint of a 1913 Flora, but still a very useful book. ]. A weedy plant in disturbed areas, roadsides, old fields, wasteplaces, pastures; forest or natural area[ 293 Title Poisonous Plants of North Carolina Publication Author Website http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/poison.htm Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent concise but comprehensive guide to toxic plants that grow in N. Carolina. It lists even those plants that are of very low toxicity, including several well-known food plants such as carrots and potatoes. ].