Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solanum emulans
FAMILY
Solanaceae
Go to FSUS key
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 (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum ptycanthum
FAMILY
Solanaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solanum emulans
SYNONYMOUS WITH A revision of the Morelloid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in North and Central America and the Caribbean (Knapp et al., 2019)
Solanum emulans
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Solanum ptychanthum
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Solanum americanum
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
COMMON NAME:
Eastern Black Nightshade
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970 swus_page_325
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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 (Smith, 1998).
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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 (Smith, 1998).
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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 (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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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 OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solanum emulans
FAMILY
Solanaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solanum ptycanthum
FAMILY
Solanaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solanum emulans
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A revision of the Morelloid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in North and Central America and the Caribbean (Knapp et al., 2019)
Solanum emulans
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Solanum ptychanthum
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Solanum americanum
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
1410
Forb
Annual
Habitat: forests, roadsides, gardens, river banks, shores, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-lobed calyx
5-parted rotate corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Lustrous black
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p202
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p125
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p211
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p338
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p198
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p236
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p151
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