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Jimsonweed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Larry W. Mitich
Larry W. Mitich*
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Dep. Bot., Univ. Calif., Davis, CA 95616
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Jimsonweed, Jamestown weed, datura, stramonium, thornapple, tolguacha. These are some of the more than a score of common English names used for jimsonweed (Datura stramonium L. #3 DATST), a cosmopolitan weed of worldwide distribution. The above names are those used most widely in the United States. Jimsonweed is a corruption of Jamestown weed, the name given the plant in colonial days because it first grew in and around Jamestown, VA (2). It had been brought from England as a medicinal plant. Boiled with hog's grease, jimsonweed made a healing salve for burns from “fire, water, boiling lead, gunpowder, and lightning” (2).

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Intriguing World of Weeds
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Weed Technology , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 208 - 210
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Copyright © 1989 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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