Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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Solanaceae | Lycium barbarum | Common Matrimony-vine, Wolfberry, Goji Berry | Old fields, fencerows, alluvial thickets and clearings, old home sites, along railroad tracks, and in other disturbed areas. | Native of s. Europe. | ![]() |
Solanaceae | Lycium berlandieri | Silver Desert-thorn, Cilindrillo, Berlandier Wolfberry | Dry limestone, clay, and saline habitats. | Nw. TX, w. OK, and NM south through s. TX and w. TX to c. Mexico. | |
Solanaceae | Lycium carolinianum | Christmas-berry, Carolina Matrimony-vine, Carolina Wolfberry | Shell middens, shell mounds, shelly sand dunes, brackish marshes, maritime sand spits. | Se. SC (where not recently seen; its occurrence is based on being named by Walter [1788] and Elliott’s [1816] statement "found by Mr. Wm. Bartram, in the saline rushy marshes of Carolina") and e. GA south to FL, west to e. TX, south to s. Mexico; also in the West Indies. | ![]() |
Solanaceae | Lycium chinense | Chinese Matrimony-vine, Wolfberry, Goji Berry | Old home sites. | Native of China. |