Solanum nitidibaccatum

Green nightshade

Family: Solanaceae · Type: annual · Native

Green nightshade is a California native annual found in northern coastal, Klamath Ranges, California Ranges, Central Valley, western Central Western, southern Coastal, northern Channel Islands, and eastern Sierra Nevada regions in disturbed areas at elevations up to 2,400 meters. Flowering from May to October, this plant produces white flowers with yellow and purple-brown to black markings, approximately 5 to 10 millimeters in diameter with reflexed lobes. Growing with decumbent stems 10 to 90 centimeters tall, covered in spreading glandless and sticky-glandular hairs. Its leaves are 2 to 6 centimeters long, ovate in shape, with entire to irregular-toothed or shallowly lobed edges. The fruit is shiny, ranging from green to purple-brown, 5 to 10 millimeters long, containing 13 to 24 yellow to brown seeds.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: May-Oct

Elevation: < 2400 m

Bioregions: NCo, KR, CaRF, GV, w CW, SCo, n ChI (Santa Cruz Island), SNE

California counties: Ventura, Riverside, Siskiyou, Los Angeles, Modoc, Mono, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Inyo, San Mateo, Tuolumne, San Bernardino, Orange, Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Butte, Colusa, Yuba, Lassen, Humboldt, Amador, Sonoma, Monterey, Alameda, Alpine, Trinity, Mendocino, Fresno, Yolo, Sutter, Plumas, Sacramento, El Dorado, Shasta

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