Fendler's Nightshade Flower Fendler's Nightshade Flower Fendler's Nightshade Flower Fendler's Nightshade Leaves Fendler's Nightshade Plant

Wildflowers of Southern Arizona


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Fendler's Nightshade.
Solanum stoloniferum.
Nightshade (Solanaceae) family.

The flowers are flat, round, 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter, and have 5 pointed lobes and a yellow beak of stamens. The flowers are followed by small, green to white fruits. The leaves are green to tinged purple below, hairy, alternate, and pinnately compound with usually 5 or 7 elliptic to egg-shaped leaflets. The terminal (end) leaflet is larger than the other leaflets. The plants have both stolons and small, rounded, white or purple tubers (potatoes).

Santa Catalina Mountains.
Location: Beside dirt parking lot at top of Ski Valley.
8/15/15

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