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What is another name for Jamestown weed?

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Jimson weed or Jamestown weed, large, coarse annual plant ( Datura stramonium ) of the family Solanaceae ( nightshade family), native to warm-temperate and tropical regions of the New World, but long widely distributed and often weedy ...

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