How about this plant in Missouri?
Keep cutting this nuisance plant back, treated it, but it comes back. What is it?
Note the pinwheel-shaped flower, single, not clustered nor composite.
This is after it grows. Note the same flower, and the purple stems.
Then after it grows to around 5 or 6 feet (don’t know if it would grow taller). And notice the nettle or spiny fruit, or whatever it is. The purple stems are getting bigger.
Thanks for any ideas.
It’s a Datura or Devils Trumpet. They are very toxic! Don’t let kids around them! Also known as jimpson weed.
Thank you. I had done an image search based on these three pix without success – probably in there, but thousands of pix. But when I looked for jimson weed, one of the pictures was so close to the spiny seed pod I posted that I had to check – not the same, but certainly similar.
Sounds like it’s going to be fun to get rid of.
As to the toxicity – I found the 1705 quote about the soldiers in Jamestown, VA who assumed the green leaves would make good salad quite amusing. Yes, we don’t want that happening to anybody.
Thank you very much. Very clear in all the pix online that this is some variety of datura stramonium, aka jimson [Jamestown] weed, devil’s trumpet, thornapple, etc.
For sure poisonous Datura stramonium, the family Solanaceae. I remember there was a similar question here some time ago. Check it out http://snaplant.com/question/any-idea-what-this-plant-is/ There is some more info about this plant to read.
