American Black Nightshade

(Solanum americanum)

 

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from a shallow taproot

Growing habits: Erect or spreading annual or short-lived perennial herb

Leaf anatomy: Wide, simple, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, leaf margins entire or somewhat crenate

Reproduction: Via star-shaped white flowers which produce berry fruit when pollenated

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}