Solanum triflorum

Family: Solanaceae
Common Name: cutleaf nightshade
Symbol: SOTR
Description: Duration: Annual Nativity: Native Lifeform: Forb/Herb General: Annual with prostrate to decumbent branches 10-40 cm long, herbage sparsely scaberulous-pubescent with appressed hairs. Leaves: Ovate to elliptic, pinnatifid or deeply lobed, 1-2 cm wide to 4 cm long, individual lobes or teeth lanceolate, 1.5-3 mmm wide, 3-7 mm long, acute; on petioles 1-1.5 cm long, blade decurrent as a narrow wing about halfway to base. Flowers: On stoutish peduncles 5-15 mm long, 1-6 but usually 3-flowered; pedicels 2-5 mm long at anthesis, 1-12 mm long and distinctly swollen toward apex in fruit; calyx 2.5-3 mm long with lance-ovate lobes equaling or slightly exceeding tube at anthesis, enlarging in fruit and then 3-4 mm wide, 3-5 mm long, clasping the base of berry; corolla white or slightly tinged with green, 6-8 mm in diameter, lobes ovate attenuate, minutely puberulent on outside and on margins near tips; anthers all alike, 2.5-3 mm long, erect or straight. Fruits: Globose berries, 6-10 mm in diameter, greenish at maturity, smooth and sublustrous. Ecology: Found on disturbed sites, roadsides, streamsides, often in sandy soil 1,000-7,000 ft (305-2134 m); flowers May-September.