Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Solanum triquetrum
Solanum triquetrum Cav.
Texas Nightshade, Hierba Mora
Solanaceae (Potato Family)
USDA Symbol: SOTR2USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Solanum triguetum
Texas Nightshade
Solonaceae
Location: 100 m S of Oakwell Farms Pky & 120 m E of Harry Wurzbach Rd--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Clamboring in shrubs, semi-shade. alkaline soil of limestone hill.
Description: A shrub. Stems elongating & scandent, suffruticose, flexuous or sarmentose, to 2 m long/high. Leaves deltoid-cordate to hastate or hastately 3-lobed; the middle lobe lanceolate & prolonged. Cymes umbellate, few flowered. Corolla stellate, white, tinged with violet.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Mar 27, 1994
Specimen number: 548
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0831
Accession Date: Jun 29, 1994
Accession Number: 61
Annotations: SCXXB (In flower)