Datura for a mallow

Datura and Hollyhock — take this sheet to the bed, not a guess to the kettle.

DaturaDatura stramonium

HollyhockAlcea rosea

Deadly mix-upNursery

Datura for a mallow

Trumpet flowers in a cottage bed. Datura is a tropane nightshade. Hollyhock is a mallow. Children have eaten the wrong seed pod.

Datura has a spiny capsule and a nightshade smell; flowers are funnel trumpets, often upward or nodding, with a simple calyx. Hollyhock is a column of mallow discs on a tall wand. Do not nibble an ornamental pod.

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The Herbarium — a teaching catalog, not a clinic. Traditional use is history, not a prescription. USDA 6b dates are a week either way, not a promise. Do not eat, drink, or harvest a plant you cannot name.