Nightshade Family Horsenettle is a member of the Nightshade family and is a thorny relative of the tomato. The small, poisonous yellow fruits look and smell like tomatoes. The unripe fruit and leaves are poisonous to humans (although, you'd have to be starving to death to want to eat the thorny leaves!), rodents, goats, cattle, sheep, and horses. The toxins contained in the leaves are soladulcidine and solanine. Perennial Where seen: Oak Ridge, Great Smoky Mountains NP, Warrior's Path SP, widespread
Forget-Me-Not Family Kingsport, TN June 23, 2007 This pretty blue flower is introduced from Europe. I found this one blooming in a weedy area next to the hotel where we stayed. I love to prowl the fringes of the places where we stay in search of any interesting wildflowers, even if they are weeds!
Bluebell Family This small Lobelia has large inflated seedpods which is the source of the species name. Annual Where seen: Great Smoky Mountains NP, Oak Ridge Greenways, Stinging Fork Falls SNA, Warriors' Path SP, widespread
