Flower in a ditch

[helwen]

harpnfiddle, I believe that flower we were looking at in the ditch at Pennsic is Horse Nettle (Solanum carolinense, Tomato Family).

My internet access is has limits today and email is even worse, so if you wouldn't mind please passing this on to Emma when you see this? She won't be home until sometime tonight, I'd expect.... Thanks!

Comments

[harpnfiddle.livejournal.com]

She wasn't far off - it is in the Solanum family, like nightshade.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the flower shape is pretty much the same in all of them even with the different color -- I think the thorns/bristles were the tricky part.