| wild potato | (n) erect or spreading perennial of southwestern United States and Mexico bearing small pale brown to cream-colored tubers resembling potatoes, Syn. Solanum jamesii |
| wild potato vine | (n) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato, Syn. manroot, scammonyroot, wild sweet potato vine, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, Ipomoea fastigiata |