Solanum lanceolatum

Orangeberry nightshade, lanceleaf nightshade

Family: Solanaceae · Type: shrub · Not Native

Orangeberry nightshade is a naturalized shrub found in the Central Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, and Southern California Coast in disturbed places at elevations below 945 meters. Flowering from April to August, this plant produces blue-purple flowers approximately 25 to 30 millimeters in diameter with deeply lobed petals. Growing as a shrub or small tree 80 to 500 centimeters tall, it has sparsely distributed brown prickles and stellate hairs. Its lanceolate leaves are 3 to 15 centimeters long, often with wavy margins and occasionally few-lobed near the base. The fruit is a yellow-orange spherical berry about 7 to 15 millimeters in size.

Habitat: Escaped from cultivation, generally disturbed places

Bloom period: Apr-Aug

Elevation: < 945 m

Bioregions: GV, SnFrB, SCo

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.