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Common Name: wetland nightshade
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Sprawling stems up to 5m with harsh, recurved prickles create impenetrable thickets along wetland streams and in moist cypress domes.
Native Range:
Central America
Nonindigenous Occurrences: Established and spreading in three major river drainages of Florida. First reported in 1983 from a wetland south of Punta Gorda in the Peace River drainage. During the same year another occurrence was reported from Fisheating Creek Wildlife Refuge in the Western Okeechobee River drainage. Found in the Peace River in 1991, and by 1996, this species was found spreading throughout the Peace River tributaries. Also occurs in the Big Cypress Swamp drainage. The largest and densest population known in Florida is within the Fisheating Creek Wildlife Refuge where it is extending its range eastward towards Lake Okeechobee (A. Fox, UF, pers. comm. 1996).
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Other Resources: Originally formatted NAS fact sheet (April 2003)
Author: M.M. Richerson and C.C. Jacono
Revision Date: 4/22/2003 Citation for this information:
M.M. Richerson and C.C. Jacono. 2009. Solanum tampicense. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=262> Revision Date: 4/22/2003
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