Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Solanum emulans
FAMILY
Solanaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Eastern Black Nightshade at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Wild Solanums are generally called nightshades, and are usually poisonous. Learn more from the University of Kentucky herbarium website.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum ptycanthum
FAMILY
Solanaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Solanum ptychanthum
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-009?:
Solanum americanum
FAMILY
Solanaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solanum nigrum
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
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Solanum ptycanthum
COMMON NAME:
Eastern Black Nightshade
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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Gill Newberry gn05_s_americanum_flowers
May
The corolla has 5 reflexed segments and is only about 1/4" across, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Roxanna Martin rlm52910_224
May Spartanburg County SC
Usually fewer than 6 flowers per umbel, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm0407e_35
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0407e_36
July Greenville County SC
Fruiting pedicels deflexed (vs. erect in S. americanum), per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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JK Marlow jkm0407x_26
July Greenville County SC
Calyx lobes adherent or spreading in mature fruit (occasionally ~ reflexed), per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm0408e_37
August Greenville County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm140822_914
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
A thornless plant with triangular-ovate leaves that may have rounded teeth, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm140823_081b
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Inflorescence umbellate, pedicels and peduncles remaining slender, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_solanum_ptychanthum_2
August
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JK Marlow s040823_d
August Greenville County SC
Downtown Greenville
Leaves irregularly blunt-toothed or almost entire, long-petioled, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Gill Newberry gn09_solanum_americanum
September
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JK Marlow jkm0410g_23
October Greenville County SC
Roadside
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Solanum emulans
FAMILY
Solanaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum ptycanthum
FAMILY
Solanaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Solanum ptychanthum
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 165-05-009?:
Solanum americanum
FAMILY
Solanaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solanum nigrum
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
-
Solanum ptycanthum
1410
Forb
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Habitat: forests, roadsides, gardens, river banks, shores, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stems and leaves unarmed
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed calyx
5-parted rotate corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Lustrous black
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p202
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p125
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p211
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p198
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p236
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p151