The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·161639SpeciesPlantae9,350 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›nightshades, bindweeds, gooseweeds, and allies
  6. ›nightshade family
  7. ›nightshades and allies
  8. ›devil's and angel's trumpets
  9. ›Datura
downy thorn-apple
Plate 1 of 9. (c) Věra Kafková, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Věra Kafková · via iNaturalist

downy thorn-apple

Datura innoxia

Datura innoxia (often spelled inoxia), known as pricklyburr, recurved thorn-apple, downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, lovache, moonflower, nacazcul, toloatzin, toloaxihuitl, tolguache or toloache, is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae. It is more rarely called sacred datura, a common name which is applied more often to the closely related Datura wrightii. It is native to the Southwestern United States, Central and South America, and introduced in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. The scientific name is...

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Datura innoxia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 161639.