Datura_wrightii Datura_wrightii

Datura wrightii - Definition

Sacred Datura
 Sacred Datura
Sacred Datura blooms only
at dusk and dawn
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Solanales
Family:Solanaceae
Genus:Datura
Species:wrightii
Binomial name
Datura wrightii

Datura wrightii is the name of a poisonous weed, sometimes used as a hallucinogen, commonly called Sacred Datura. Datura wrightii is classified as a deleriant, or an anticholinergic.

In the US it is, however, called Western Jimson Weed.

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