Greenspot Nightshade
Solanum douglasii
PERENNIAL HERB: Mostly herbaceous, but exceptionally large plants may be
woody towards base. Most often plants are less than 1 m tall and straggle for
support on other nearby shrubs.
RANGE: Fairly common as an understory plant in mesquite bosques and
along major washes mostly above 900 m elevation in the Sonoran Desert of
Arizona.
FLOWERS: Typical nightshade flowers arranged in small umbels with
prominant yellow stamens and white petals. Look for green spots at base of
corolla. Most flowering occurs late spring into fall.
FRUIT: Purple berries with a number of kidney-shaped seeds.
UNARMED.
LEAVES: Elyptic leaves are irregularly toothed.
Solanaceae -- Nightshade Family
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Inflorescence of Solanum douglasii. Photographed at Mesquite Wash, Maricopa Co., Arizona, Oct. 2009.
