Solanum pumilum

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Species Distribution Map
Family:SOLANACEAE
Species:Solanum pumilum Dunal
Common Name:Dwarf Horse Nettle; Hairy Carolina Horse Nettle
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Dwarf Horse Nettle is a native herbaceous perennial in the Nightshade family (Solanaceae). It is known only from Alabama and historically (1834-1837) Georgia. Dwarf Horse Nettle occurs in Bibb, Chilton, and Coosa counties in Alabama. It grows in thin soils on amphibolite outcrops and Ketona Glades. It is a perennial from short, creeping rhizomes. The stems are erect, weakly branched, green or reddish purple in color, pubescent, but not armed with prickles. The stems are 1-8 inches in height. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, ovate to elliptic in outline, rounded to obtuse at the apex, with entire or shallowly sinuate margins. The leaves are pubescent on both surfaces, and the midvein on the lower surface of the leaf is sometimes armed with a few weak prickles (but not the secondary veins). Flowers are produced in terminal racemes. The corolla is star-shaped with 5 pure white petals united at their base, and 5 tubular yellow stamens. Flowers are sweetly fragrant. The fruit is a yellow berry. Dwarf Horse Nettle is listed as an S1 species in Alabama (typically 5 or fewer occurrences, very few remaining individuals, or some factor of its biology making it especially vulnerable in the state), and globally as a G1 species (critically imperiled globally because of extreme rarity or especially vulnerable to extinction because of some factor of its biology).—A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native, S1 (State Rank), G1 (Global Rank)
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilySOLANACEAE - Nightshade/Potato family
Genus Solanum
Species Solanum pumilum Dunal - Dwarf Horse Nettle; Hairy Carolina Horse Nettle

Citation

Citation Solanum pumilum Dunal, Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(1): 287. 1852.
Basionym: **
Type: USA: GEORGIA: around Millegeville, D. Boykin s.n. (holotype: PH).

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Solanum carolinense var. hirsutum    

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Bibb, Chilton, Coosa

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, NY, SAMF, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
ALNHS00002619 Bibb 9 May 2014 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#1360		 ALNHS
Solanum pumilum Dunal
UNA00057726 Coosa 01 May 1994 Allison, James R.
8241		 UNA
Solanum pumilum Dunal
SAMF0004551 Bibb 11 Apr 2011 Davenport, Lawrence J.
4659		 SAMF
Solanum pumilum Dunal
UNA00057793 Bibb 02 May 1993 Allison, James R.
7590		 UNA
Solanum pumilum Dunal
NYv-287-00821179 Chilton 01 May 1994 James R. Allison
8239		 NY
Solanum pumilum Dunal
UWAL0015536 Bibb 15 May 2014 Keener, Brian R.
8396		 UWAL
Solanum pumilum Dunal
UNA00057701 Bibb 16 May 1993 Allison, James R.
7644		 UNA
Solanum pumilum Dunal
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