| Scientific Name: | Solanum tuberosum |
| Common Name: | potato |
| Family Name: | Solanaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Urban agriculture |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Odd-pinnate, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Blue, Purple, Pink, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Green, Purple, Red, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Tubers mostly oval and harvested when 3-15cm long; stem thick and fleshy; leaves alternate, pinnately compound, larger leaflets 5-9, most ovate, 7-15cm long x 2-8cm wide, usually with additional much smaller leaflets along the rachis, most ovate bright green, opposite; cormyb-like cymes above foliage with 5-20 white to purple florets with large yellow anthers, Jul-Sep. | |