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Datura stramonium is an erect, annual, freely branching herb that forms a bush up to 60 to 150 cm (2 to 5 ft) tall. [ 10][ 11][ 12] The root is long, thick, fibrous, and white. The stem is stout, erect, leafy, smooth, and pale yellow-green to reddish purple in color. The stem forks off repeatedly into branches and each fork forms a leaf and a ...
Locoweed. Locoweed (also crazyweed and loco) is a common name in North America for any plant that produces swainsonine, an alkaloid harmful to livestock. Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of species, most of them in three genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae: Oxytropis and Astragalus in North America, [1] and ...
Phytolacca americana, also known as American pokeweed, pokeweed, poke sallet, pokeberry, dragonberries, pigeonberry weed, and inkberry, is a poisonous, herbaceous perennial plant in the pokeweed family Phytolaccaceae. This pokeweed grows 1 to 3 metres (4 to 10 ft). [ 4] It has simple leaves on green to red or purplish stems and a large white ...
Amaranthus palmeri is a species of edible flowering plant in the amaranth genus. It has several common names, including carelessweed, [ 1] dioecious amaranth, [ 2] Palmer's amaranth, Palmer amaranth, and Palmer's pigweed . It is native to most of the southern half of North America. Populations in the eastern United States are probably naturalized.
Benth. Piscaria setigera (Hook.) Piper. Croton setiger is a species of plant known in English as turkey mullein, dove weed, and fish locoweed. [3] (. Not to be confused with Murdannia nudiflora, which is often called doveweed.) It is native to most of the western United States and northwest Mexico. It has naturalized elsewhere, including parts ...
Commonly considered a weed of gardens, fields, and lawns, it grows in full sun or shade. The alternate leaves of this plant are divided into three heart-shaped leaflets (a typical trait of other species of Oxalis) that can grow up to 2 cm wide.
Gutierrezia sarothrae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names broom snakeweed, broomweed, snakeweed, and matchweed. It is a subshrub native to much of the western half of North America, from western Canada to northern Mexico, and can be found in a number of arid, grassland, and mountain habitats.
Somatic effects. Bloodshot eye. Some of the short-term physical effects of cannabis use include increased heart rate, dry mouth, reddening of the eyes (congestion of the conjunctival blood vessels ), a reduction in intra-ocular pressure, muscle relaxation, and a sensation of cold or hot hands and feet. [ 53]