Originally Posted by mama's place

We call them Datura. Don't know if that is the correct name for them. I believe that they are possibly poisonous..so be careful of them around children and pets. My mom used to grow them. I think they are related to Angel Trumpets. They die back in the winter here in Alabama but are easy to grow from seeds the next year. The blooms are very pretty, aren't they?

Originally Posted by redquilter

Looks like it could be moonflower. I'll take some! It's so pretty.

Originally Posted by OldHairTwister

They sure are moonflowers!!! Have had them in my garden for 50+ years and in my parents garden all of my growing up years. They go through beautiful stages as they open and in the morning the kind of curl back around themselves before finally closing up and drying and then falling off leaving the prickly pod that are "full" of seeds.
The blooms only last for one day, much like the daylily. I did hear in the last year or two that the seeds are a halucigen.

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.

Originally Posted by wildyard

All the plants mentioned, except the Moonflower Vine are related. They are all members of the Datura family and are all poisonous. Jimpson weed may be the original wild member of the family, but I am not sure of that. Angel Trumpets, Devil's Trumpet, and many other names are given to the various cultivars.
As a rule the Angel's Trumpets are not hardy, even from seed, in the colder climates and are usually grown as house plants or in greenhouses.
The plant in the photo, is a common Datura that readily reseeds itself in northern gardens even tho it dies back to the ground every winter.
As with ALL Daturas, they are very poisonous and should be grown with caution. They are lovely tho, and have a wonderful scent in the cooler evening and morning hours.
I had them in my garden until one of my teen daughter's friends decided to make tea from the seeds and ended up in the hospital. Thankfully he survived but it was touch and go for a while there. He had seen on TV a show warning people that the plant could be used to get high on, but that it was very poisonous. Apparently there had been some problems recently with teens doing that, so the TV news showed all about how to do it, in warning of not to. Sheesh. Needless to say, that plant was immediately gone from my garden forever after.