Heart like a wheel....jimson weed Datura wrightii Inceville Los Liones Canyon Los Angeles 165
Jerry looks over my shoulder as I tinker with the flower photo in lightroom. "You took that????" Asks Jerry.
Happy Slider Sunday!
"Sacred Datura is an easy plant to identify and a fabulous flower to gaze on. Leaves are up to 10 inches long, flared trumpet flowers are 5-9 inches long, and the overall plant is often several feet high and a sprawling four or five feet across.
Stanley Welsh, author of A Utah Flora, has this to say about Datura wrightii: "The flowers are the largest of any native plant in Utah, and are sweetly scented. The herbage smells like a wet dog".
"Datura" apparently comes from either the Arabic "Tatorah", the Hindustani "Dhatura", or the Latin "dare". According to Harrington (in his Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains) "Jimsonweed "is a corruption of "Jamestown Weed", a name given to a related Datura that poisoned a number of soldiers in Jamestown in 1676."
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Heart like a wheel....jimson weed Datura wrightii Inceville Los Liones Canyon Los Angeles 165
Jerry looks over my shoulder as I tinker with the flower photo in lightroom. "You took that????" Asks Jerry.
Happy Slider Sunday!
"Sacred Datura is an easy plant to identify and a fabulous flower to gaze on. Leaves are up to 10 inches long, flared trumpet flowers are 5-9 inches long, and the overall plant is often several feet high and a sprawling four or five feet across.
Stanley Welsh, author of A Utah Flora, has this to say about Datura wrightii: "The flowers are the largest of any native plant in Utah, and are sweetly scented. The herbage smells like a wet dog".
"Datura" apparently comes from either the Arabic "Tatorah", the Hindustani "Dhatura", or the Latin "dare". According to Harrington (in his Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains) "Jimsonweed "is a corruption of "Jamestown Weed", a name given to a related Datura that poisoned a number of soldiers in Jamestown in 1676."
swcoloradowildflowers.com