Carolina horsenettle
Solanum carolinense L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- —
Solanaceae
Also called Carolina horse-nettle, Horse Nettle, Ball-Nettle, Apple of Sodom, Devil's potato
Formerly Solanum floridanum, Solanum godfreyi, Solanum obliquatum, Solanum pleei
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. U.S.A. to NE. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- SOLCAR
- French
- Morelle de Caroline
- Czech
- lilek karolínský
- Japanese
- ワルナスビ, オニナスビ
- Spanish
- Ortiga de Carolina
- Finnish
- carolinankoiso, Karoliinankoiso
- Russian
- Паслён каролинский
- Chinese
- 北美刺龍葵, 北美刺茄, 北美刺龙葵
- Chinese (China)
- 北美刺龙葵
- Korean
- 도깨비가지
- Swedish
- stickskatta
- German
- Carolina-Nachtschatten
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Solanum carolinense (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.