About bugweed
Solanum mauritianum is a small tree or shrub native to South America, including Northern Argentina, Southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Its common names include earleaf nightshade (or "ear-leaved nightshade"), woolly nightshade, flannel weed, bugweed, tobacco weed, tobacco bush, wild tobacco and kerosene plant.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Solanum mauritianum
- Genus
- Solanum
- Family
- SOLANACEAE
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Shola forest margins and montane scrub jungle
- Native to
- South America
- Flowering & fruiting
- December-June
Botanical family
Solanaceae
Nightshade/Tomato family
bugweed belongs to the Solanaceae family.
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