Black Nightshade

Solanum ptycanthum

This member of the tomato family has clusters of small (1/2 inch) tomato-like flowers consisting of five strongly reflexed white petals around a pointed yellow beak. Leaves, on relatively short petioles, are variable in shape, often rounded or ovate, sometimes triangular.  The fruit is a small (3/8 inch), smooth, spherical berry of green that ripens to black.

(See also Bittersweet Nightshade, S. dulcamara, usually violet, which may also have white flowers.)

1-3 feet, sun - partial sun.  

Spring-Summer (May-September).

  Leaves may be ovate-pointed, oval, round, or roughly triangular in shape.

2 August 2020.

Black Nightshade, 13 June 2020.