| Plant Photo | Scientific Name | Common Name and Description | Seed Photo |
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Capsicum annuum | Common Name: Chile Pepper or Cayenne Pepper
Leaves: Alternate, ovate to elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute to acuminate to 6 cm long and 3 cm wide Flowers: Corolla stellate, whitish, about 7 mm wide Fruit: Berry is ovoid to nearly globose, persistent, red or yellowish, to about 15 mm long pungently aromatic Habitat: On ledges along rivers, in thickets, groves and along arroyos Range: Edwards Plateau to south Texas; east to Florida and west to Arizona; throughout tropical America Group: Dicot Family: Solanaceae Growth Habit: Subshurb/Shrub/Forb/Herb - slender divergent brittle green branches to 3 m high Duration: Annual/Perennial U.S. Nativity: Native/Introduced |
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Datura stramonium | Common Name: Jimsonweed, Jamestown Weed or Datura
Leaves: Ovate to elliptic, to 2 dm long sinuately to lanciniately lobed Flowers: Calyx 35-45 mm long the unequeal teeth 5-10 mm long, corolla white, commonly timged with lavender, 6-8 cm long Fruit: Capsule erect, ovaoid 3.5-5 cm long usually armed with spines mostly less than 5 mm long finely and sparsely puberulent to glabrate; seeds black, rugulose and finely pitted Habitat: In cultivated areas and waste places throughout Texas; widely distributed through the world Range: United States except Alaska and Wyoming Group: Dicot Family: Solancacea Growth Habit: Forb/Herb/Subshrub - simple to spreading branched erect to 15 dm high, with green sparsely puberulent to glabrate stems and foliage Duration: Annual U.S. Nativity: Introduced |
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Solanum lycopersicum formerly Lycopersicon esculentus | Common Name: Tomato
Leaves: Odd-pinnate, with small interstitial petiolulate leaflets, to about 4 dm long; primary leaflets 5-9, stalked, ovate to oblong, to 75 mm long, acuminate, irregularly incised or toothed, the margins tending to roll inward Flowers: 3-7 nodding, to about 2 cm across or more, on jointed pedicels that are reflexed in fruit; calyx 5-parted to base, the lanceolate lobes to 1 cm long; corolla yellow, the 5 lanceolate lobes recurved-reflexed, a little more than 1 cm long Fruit: Pulpy berry, red or yellow, usually flattend at the ends, to 75 mm across, the sides often furrowed or angled; seeds numerous Habitat: Range: Native of western South America; cultivated elsewhere for it's fruit Group: Dicot Family: Solanaceae Growth Habit: Forb/Herb - spreading hairy-pubescence and more or less glandular and strong-smelling, to 15 dm high or more, the young growth on mature plants erect Duration: Annual/Perennial U.S. Nativity: Introduced - Native to the warmer parts of AMerica |
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Nicotiana rustica | Common Name: Aztec tobacco or Wild Tobacco
Leaves: Entire or sometimes repand or panduriform Flowers: Racemes or panicles; calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-cleft; corolla funnelform or salverform, usually with a long tube Fruit: Capsule ovoid to narrowly ellipsoid, acute or blunt 2-celled, 2-4 valved from the apex; seeds numerous and minute Habitat: Range: Group: Dicot Family: Solanaceae Growth Habit: Forb/Herb - narcotic-poisonous and heavy-scented, usually viscid-pubescent Duration: Annual U.S. Nativity: Probably Introduced |
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