Common names: Orangeberry or lanceleaf nightshade
WeedyIntroduced
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 14.

Shrubs or small trees, erect, sparsely armed, 1–2(–3.5) m, prickles brownish, straight or recurved, to 10 mm, moderately to densely bright white-pubes­cent, hairs sessile to short-stalked, stellate, 5–8-rayed, central ray shorter than lateral rays. Leaves petiolate; petiole 1.5–4 cm; blade simple, ovate to elliptic, 5–25 × 3–15 cm, margins entire to shallowly lobed with 2–4 lobes per side, lobe margins entire to undulate, base obtuse to cordate. Inflorescences extra-axillary, usually much-branched, 10–20-flowered, to 10 cm. Pedicels 0.5–1 cm in flower, erect and 1–2 cm in fruit. Flowers radially symmetric; calyx not accrescent, unarmed, 5–8 mm, densely stellate-pubescent, lobes triangular; corolla usually blue to purple, rarely whitish, stellate to rotate-stellate, 2.5–4 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue; stamens equal; anthers narrow and tapered, 6–8 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores; ovary glabrous to stellate-pubescent. Berries yellow to orange, globose, 0.7–1.5 cm diam., stellate-pubescent at apex, without sclerotic granules. Seeds yellow to light brown, flattened, 2.5–3 × 2–2.5 mm, minutely pitted.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Aug.
Habitat: Disturbed sites.
Elevation: 0–400 m.

Distribution

Calif., Mexico, Central America.

Discussion

Solanum lanceolatum is naturalized along the California coast and inland in central and southern California, where it is listed as a noxious weed by the California Department of Agriculture.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Lynn Bohs1 +  and 1The author wishes to acknowledge co-authorship with David M. Spooner† on S. jamesii and S. stoloniferum and with Sandra Knapp and Tiina Särkinen on the black nightshade species. +
Cavanilles +
Orangeberry or lanceleaf nightshade +
Calif. +, Mexico +  and Central America. +
0–400 m. +
Disturbed sites. +
Flowering Apr–Aug. +
Weedy +  and Introduced +
Lycopersicon +
Solanum lanceolatum +
species +