Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Buffalo-bur Nightshade at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

Wild Solanums are generally called nightshades, and are usually poisonous. Learn more from the University of Kentucky herbarium website.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum rostratum   FAMILY Solanaceae

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

Solanum rostratum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-002:

Solanum rostratum   FAMILY Solanaceae

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

Androcera rostrata

COMMON NAME:
Buffalo-bur Nightshade, Kansas-thistle

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_soro_001_lvd

        

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_solanum_rostratum_1

August    Iredell County    NC

Leaves elliptic or obovate, once or twice pinnately lobed, cleft or parted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_solanum_rostratum_1b

August    Iredell County    NC

Corolla yellow, 16-24mm broad. Anthers spreading, unequal, lowermost longest, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_solanum_rostratum_2

August    Iredell County    NC

Fruit (berries) partially or wholly covered by the enlarged prickly calyx, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum rostratum   FAMILY Solanaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-002:
Solanum rostratum   FAMILY Solanaceae

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