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I am both repelled and fascinated by jimson weed. It’s a bold and assertive plant that can grow to four feet tall. Jimson weed has irregularly shaped leaves with sharp teeth, lurid purplish stems and a prickly, oval-shaped seed pod about the size of a big man’s thumb. This pod is full of small, hard black seeds. The white, trumpet-shaped, flowers are up to five inches long.
Recently I have seen jimson weed in the most unlikely places: beside a paved sidewalk in downtown Front Royal, in a row of okra plants, and along U.S. 211 near Warrenton. It also thrives in abandoned pig lots for some obscure reason. Any plot of ground that has been recently disturbed will often sprout jimson weed, the plant has a rank, unpleasant smell though I would not recommend crushing the plant to test this statement. All parts of jimson weed are extremely poisonous.
A prominent Washington Opthalomologist told me several years ago that two teenaged boys were brought to him with the pupils of their eyes abnormally dilated. They were also in a state of shock and their heartbeats were rapid. It was established that the boys had been given the task of pulling weeds from a
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