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|accepted_name=Solanum dimidiatum
|accepted_authority=Rafinesque
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Autik. Bot.,
|place=107. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|common_names=Torrey’s nightshade;western or robust horsenettle
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Solanum torreyi
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Solanum;Solanum dimidiatum
|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 dimidiatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, erect, sparsely to moderately armed, to 1 m, prickles cream to yellowish, straight or slightly curved, to 6.5 mm, sparsely to densely pubescent, hairs whitish, sessile to short-stalked, stellate, (4–)6–10-rayed, central ray 1-celled and equal to or shorter than lateral rays. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; petiole 1–4 cm; blade simple, ovate, 6–15 × 3–10 cm, margins sinuate or shallowly to deeply lobed with 2–4 lobes per side, lobe margins entire to coarsely lobed, base truncate to cuneate and often oblique. <b>Inflorescences</b> extra-axillary, 1–several times branched, to ca. 20-flowered, 6–14 cm. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–2.5 cm in flower, 1.5–3 cm and curved downward in fruit. <b>Flowers</b> radially symmetric; calyx not accrescent, unarmed or with sparse prickles, 6–14 mm, densely stellate-pubescent, lobes ovate-lanceolate; corolla lavender, pale blue, or sometimes white, stellate to stellate-pentagonal or rotate-stellate, 2–4.6 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue at margins and bases of lobes; stamens equal; anthers narrow and tapered, 5–9 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores; ovary minutely pubescent, hairs simple and stellate, rarely densely stellate-pubescent, glandular and eglandular. <b>Berries</b> yellow, subovoid to depressed-globose, 1–2 × 1–2.5 cm, glabrous, without sclerotic granules. <b>Seeds</b> yellow, flattened, 1.9–3 × 1.7–2.5 mm, minutely pitted. <b>2n</b> = 72.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Oct.
|habitat=Prairies, woodlands, disturbed areas.
|elevation=20–700(–2000) m.
|distribution=Ark.;Calif.;Ill.;Kans.;La.;Mo.;N.Mex.;Okla.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico (Nuevo León);introduced in Australia.
|discussion=<p>Solanum dimidiatum is found mainly in the southcentral United States, with outlier populations in Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and South Carolina. The species is introduced in California, where it is considered a noxious weed by the California Department of Agriculture.</p>
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name=Solanum dimidiatum
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Solanum torreyi
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Oct.
|habitat=Prairies, woodlands, disturbed areas.
|elevation=20–700(–2000) m.
|distribution=Ark.;Calif.;Ill.;Kans.;La.;Mo.;N.Mex.;Okla.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico (Nuevo León);introduced in Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Autik. Bot.,
|publication year=1840
|special status=Weedy
|source xml=
|genus=Solanum
|species=Solanum dimidiatum
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