Originally Posted by
Alice Woodhull
These are not Datura. It has smaller flowers and the throat is purple. Datura is what farmers call Jimson weed and grows in old hog lots. My daughter found one growing in her flower garden in town, and likes it so it is not a weed to her. We had these that you are calling Moon flowers growing when I grew up and called them Flowering Jimsons. My friend calls them Moon Flowers so I would think that is what they are.
Please google Datura. Those pictures are those of the Datura - the horticultural name for them. You have to be so careful because that plant that is pictured, those that are called Datura are poisonous. Rather not even grow Moonflowers if there is any doubt. Please. Edie