| Distribution | See Solanum emulans. What Weakley (2024) now calls S. americanum is a mostly coastal native species found from SC southward, though his map does show the species as provenance uncertain in the NC Coastal Plain. Unfortunately, SERNEC contains dozens of specimens under this name, and Weakley (2024) assigns about all to S. emulans and thus the editors have no way to know if any of these many specimens now refer to "true" americanum. NOTE -- this taxon has also been named as S. nigrum in some references; Weakley (2024) has this name subsumed in emulans.
"E. SC (and NC?) south to s. FL, west to e. TX; western North America, Mexico, Central America, South America" (Weakley 2024). | |
