Bitterroot Restoration

Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Common name: Sada dhutra(Beng.); Thornapple, Jamestown weed(Eng.).
Life cycle: Perennial or Annual
Native Range: It is a native of Asia and it was imported to Europe and then to temperate parts of North and South America.

Datura stramonium is the botanical name of the plant more commonly known as jimsonweed. It is an erect annual herb forming a bush up to 3–5 ft (1–1.5 m) tall. Their leaves are soft, irregularly undulate, and toothed. The fragrant flowers are trumpet-shaped, white to creamy or violet, and 2.5 to 3.5 in. long. They rarely open completely. The egg-shaped seed capsule is walnut-sized and either covered with spines or bald.

Datura stramonium is used to treat asthma, and gastrointestinal problems, also aches, abscesses, arthritis, boils, headaches, hemorroids, rattlesnake bites, sprains, swellings, and tumors. It is an anodyne, antibiotic, antispasmodic and narcotic.