View source for Solanum carolinense

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|accepted_name=Solanum carolinense
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 187. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Carolina horsenettle;horsenettle;bull nettle
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Solanum;Solanum carolinense
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Solanaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Solanum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Solanum carolinense]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or shrubs, perennial, erect, sparsely to moderately armed, to 1.2 m, prickles cream to yellowish, straight, to 6 mm, sparsely to densely pubescent, hairs white to cream, sessile to short-stalked, stellate, 4(–8)-rayed, central ray 1–3(–5)-celled and to 3 mm, longer than lateral rays. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; petiole 0.4–4 cm; blade simple, ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic, 2–15 × 2–10 cm, margins subentire, sinuate, or lobed with 1–4 lobes per side, sometimes very deeply lobed almost to midrib, lobe margins entire to coarsely lobed, base cuneate. <b>Inflorescences</b> extra-axillary, unbranched or rarely forked, 2–12-flowered, 2–9 cm. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.5–1 cm in flower, 1.2–1.8 cm and curved downward in fruit. <b>Flowers</b> radially symmetric; calyx somewhat accrescent, unarmed or with sparse prickles, 5–8 mm, moderately stellate-pubescent, lobes lanceolate to elliptic-acuminate; corolla white to pale blue or violet, stellate to stellate-pentagonal or rotate-stellate, 2–3 cm diam., with interpetalar tissue at margins and bases of lobes; stamens equal; anthers narrow and tapered, 4.5–6.5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores; ovary glabrous or sparsely to moderately glandular-puberulent, rarely moderately pubescent, hairs white, stellate or simple. <b>Berries</b> light green with darker green mottling or pale greenish white, turning bright yellow, subglobose to depressed-globose, 1–2 × 1–1.8 cm, glabrous, without sclerotic granules. <b>Seeds</b> yellow, flattened, 1.7–2.4 × 1.6–1.8 mm, minutely pitted. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;introduced in Europe;Asia;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
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|references=
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf margins subentire, sinuate, or lobed, sinuses of lobes, when present, reaching less than 1/2 distance to midvein; apex of leaf lobes subacute to acute, sometimes rounded.
|[[Solanum carolinense var. carolinense|Solanum carolinense var. carolinense]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf margins deeply lobed, sinuses of lobes reaching more than 1/2 distance to midvein or almost to midvein; apex of leaf lobes typically rounded.
|[[Solanum carolinense var. floridanum|Solanum carolinense var. floridanum]]
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name=Solanum carolinense
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|distribution=North America;introduced in Europe;Asia;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Weedy;Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=
|genus=Solanum
|species=Solanum carolinense
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