Editing Datura wrightii (section)

==In popular culture==
The American artist [[Georgia O'Keeffe]] (1887–1986) painted "jimson weed" several times. She was fond of the flowers, which grew wild around her New Mexico house. These paintings of the exotic white pinwheel blooms, hugely magnified, are among her most familiar works.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/tate-modern-show-iconic-flower-painting-georgia-okeeffe |title=Tate Modern to show iconic flower painting by Georgia O'Keeffe |publisher=Tate |date=1 March 2018 |access-date=19 January 2019}}</ref> In 2014 [[Jimson Weed (painting)|one such painting sold for $44 million]], a record price for a female artist's work.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://daily.jstor.org/georgia-okeeffe-and-the-44-million-jimson-weed/ |title=Georgia O'Keeffe and the $44 Million Jimson Weed |last=Rile |first=Karen |publisher=JStor Daily |date=1 December 2014 |access-date=19 January 2019}}</ref> Given the location of O'Keeffe's residence in the New Mexico desert, it is likely that she saw 'western' jimson weed.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

The plant is an element of [[Hunter S. Thompson]]'s 1971 [[roman à clef]] novel, ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream]]''. In part 2, chapter 5 of the book, a jimsonweed experience is recounted by the character [[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Dr. Gonzo]] as described here: "Last Christmas somebody gave me a whole Jimson weed – the root must have weighed two pounds; enough for a year – but I ate the whole goddamn thing in about twenty minutes... Luckily, I vomited most of it right back up. But even so, I went blind for three days. Christ I couldn't even walk! My whole body turned to wax. I was such a mess that they had to haul me back to the ranch house in a wheelbarrow... they said I was trying to talk, but I sounded like a raccoon."<ref>Thompson, Hunter (1971). ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream''</ref> Due to the fact that Dr. Gonzo presumably lived in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]] during this time, this encounter was likely also with the "western jimsonweed" species as well. It could have also been ''[[Datura innoxia]]'', but since the author has passed, we may never know which he intended.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2005-02-21 |title=Hunter S. Thompson, 67, Author, Commits Suicide (Published 2005) |work=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/books/hunter-s-thompson-67-author-commits-suicide.html |access-date=2023-08-10 |last1=O'Donnell |first1=Michelle }}</ref>