=Bittersweet, Solanum dulcamara.=
4b. Not climbing; leaves toothed (flowers white)
=Nightshade, Solanum nigrum.=
5a. Climbing or trailing shrub, with purplish, white, or greenish
flowers about 1 cm. wide (frequently thorny; flowers in summer)
=Matrimony Vine, Lycium halimifolium.=
5b. Herbaceous plants, not climbing --6.
6a. Flowers white, red, or blue, 2.5 cm. or more wide (summer) --7.
6b. Flowers yellow, yellowish-white, or greenish-yellow (summer)
--12.
7a. Corolla-tube 10 cm. long or more (5-12 dm. high) --8.
7b. Corolla-tube 5 cm. long or less --10.
8a. Stem finely pubescent; leaves entire or nearly so
=Thorn-apple, Datura metel.=
8b. Stem glabrous; leaves coarsely toothed (Jimson Weed) --9.
9a. Stem green; corolla white =Jimson Weed, Datura stramonium.=
9b. Stem purple; corolla light-blue or purple
=Jimson Weed, Datura tatula.=
10a. Corolla pale-blue (5-10 dm. high)
=Apple of Peru, Nicandra physalodes.=
10b. Corolla, red or violet (2-4 dm. high)
=Petunia, Petunia violacea.=
10c. Corolla white --11.
11a. Corolla all white (2-4 dm. high) =Petunia, Petunia axillaris.=
11b. Corolla with yellow center
=White Ground Cherry, Physalis grandiflora.=
12a. Corolla 30 mm. wide or more, somewhat irregular; stamens
declined to one side (3-6 dm. high)
=Henbane, Hyoscyamus niger.=
12b. Corolla smaller, strictly regular --13.
13a. Flowers in terminal panicles; corolla tubular, with slightly
spreading lobes (5-10 dm. high) =Wild Tobacco, Nicotiana rustica.=
13b. Flowers solitary in the axils; corolla short, widely spreading (3-8
dm. high) (Ground Cherry) --14.
14a. Annuals with branching slender roots --15.
14b. Perennials with thickened roots and rootstocks --16.
15a. Plants pubescent =Ground Cherry, Physalis pubescens.=
15b. Plants smooth, or with a few scattered hairs
=Ground Cherry, Physalis ixocarpa.=
16a. Stem viscid-pubescent =Ground Cherry, Physalis heterophylla.=
16b. Stem glabrous o
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