Jamestown Weed

or Jamestown weed, large, coarse annual plant (Datura stramonium) of the family Solanaceae (nightshade family), native to warm-temperate and tropical regions of the New World, but long widely distributed and often weedy.

THORN-APPLE. Datura stramonium, Jamestown Weed, Stinkweed, or Apple of Peru has narcotic, anodyne leaves and seeds.

Index- plants in this Family
Solanaceae / Nightshade Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium)
Jimsonweed is also known as Jamestown weed, Thorn-apple, Stinkweed, Devil's Apple, Devil's Trumpet, Mad Apple and Apple of Peru.. ...

Thorn apple health benefits (Datura stramonium - Solanaceae Fam.)
Popular names: jimson weed, angel's trumpet, devil's weed, thorn apple, tolguacha, Jamestown weed, stinkweed, datura, moonflower, malpitte and mad seeds, etc.

According to Harrington (in his Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains) "Jimsonweed "is a corruption of "Jamestown Weed", a name given to a related Datura that poisoned a number of soldiers in Jamestown in 1676.

The main distinguishing aspect that separates the Brugmansia from the true species of Datura is that the Brugmansia are large shrubs or small trees and the Datura, or Jimsonweeds (a name corrupted from Jamestown weed), are annual or perennial herbs.

jimsonweed; common thorn apple; Jamestown weed Datura stramonium
Job's tears Coix lacryma-jobi
Johnson grass Sorghum halepense
jointed charlock Raphanus raphanistrum
jointed goatgrass Aegilops cylindrica
juniper-berry Citharexylum caudatum ...

See also: Stramonium, Datura stramonium, May, Devil, Nightshade