Datura L.

Native to:

Arizona, California, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Texas

Introduced into:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Alberta, Aldabra, Algeria, Altay, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arkansas, Aruba, Ascension, Assam, Austria, Azores, Bahamas, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Central African Republic, Central European Russia, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Colombia, Colorado, Comoros, Congo, Connecticut, Cook Is., Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, France, Free State, French Guiana, Galápagos, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Louisiana, Madagascar, Madeira, Maine, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Manchuria, Marianas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mauritius, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Nova Scotia, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Rodrigues, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Society Is., Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South China Sea, South Dakota, South European Russia, Southwest Caribbean, Spain, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turks-Caicos Is., Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Bye, R. & Sosa, V. (2013). Molecular phylogeny of the Jimsonweed genus Datura (Solanaceae). Systematic Botany 38: 818-829.
• Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter D: 1-30141.
• Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Fosberg in Taxon 8: 52 (1959)
• Satina, Avery & Sachet in Blakeslee, The Genus Datura 16—47 (1959).
• —F.T.A. 4, 2: 258

Flora Zambesiaca

• Datura L., Sp. Pl.: 179 (1753)
• Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 83 (1754).
• Hawkes, Lester, Nee & Estrada, Solanaceae III: 197 (1991).
• Hunziker, Gen. Solanacearum: 149 (2001).
• Nee, Symon, Lester & Jessop, Solanaceae IV: 171–187 (1999).
• Persson, Knapp & Blackmore in Nee, Symon, Lester & Jessop, Solanaceae IV: 171–187 (1999).
• Sp. Pl.: 179 (1753)
• Symon & Haegi in Hawkes, Lester, Nee & Estrada, Solanaceae III: 197 (1991).

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Aust. J. Bot. 24: 415–435 (1976);
• Chronica Botanica 20: 16–47 (1959);
• DC., Prodr. 13(1): 538 (1852);
• Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 83 (1754)
• Hunziker, Gen. Solanaceae: 149–153 (2001)
• J.L.S. 125: 295–308 (1997);
• Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 11(8): 173–189 (1921);
• Solanaceae IV: 171–187 (1999);
• Sp. Pl.; 179 (1753)
• Syst. Nat. 2, ed. 10: 932 (1759);