Common Name: NIGHTSHADE FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub. Leaf: generally simple, generally alternate, generally petioled; stipules 0; blade entire to deeply lobed. Inflorescence: various. Flower: bisexual; calyx lobes generally 5; corolla +- radial, cylindric to rotate, lobes generally 5; stamens 5, on corolla tube, alternate lobes; ovary superior, generally 2-chambered, style 1. Fruit: berry, loculicidal or septicidal capsule, [(drupe)], 2--5-chambered. Genera In Family: 75 genera, 3000 species: worldwide, especially +- tropics; many alien weeds in California; many cultivated for food, drugs, or ornamental (potato, tomato, peppers, tobacco, petunia). Toxicity: many TOXIC. Note:Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn. is a waif. eFlora Treatment Author: Michael H. Nee Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: NIGHTSHADE Habit: Annual to shrub, vine or not, prickly or not, often glandular. Leaf: alternate to +- opposite, often unequal, entire to deeply pinnately lobed. Inflorescence: panicle or umbel-like, often 1-sided. Flower: calyx +- bell-shaped; corolla +- rotate, white to purple (yellow), lobes generally of different color toward base of midrib, generally without spots at base; anthers free, > filaments, oblong or tapered, opening by 2 pores or short slits near tip, in age often splitting to base; ovary 2-chambered, style 1, generally +- straight, stigma head-like. Fruit: berry, generally spheric, fleshy (or dry, capsule-like). Seed: many, compressed, generally reniform. Etymology: (Latin: quieting, from narcotic properties) Toxicity: many TOXIC. Note: Many cultivated for food (including potato, Solanum tuberosum), ornamental; Solanum dimidiatum in California an urban weed. See Lycopersicon for other taxa recently included here. Unabridged Reference: Nee, M. 1999. Synopsis of Solanum in the New World, pp. 285--333 in M. Nee, D.E. Symon, R.N. Lester & J.P. Jessop (eds.), Solanaceae IV, Advances in Biology and Utilization, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Symon 1981 J Adelaide Bot Gard 4:1--367
Solanum umbelliferum Eschsch.
NATIVE Habit: Perennial herb to subshrub, generally < 10 dm, much-branched; hairs generally dense, branched. Leaf: 1--4 cm, +- elliptic to (ob)ovate, generally entire. Inflorescence: +- umbel-like, forked or not; pedicels 12--15 mm, > peduncle. Flower: calyx 3--3.5 mm; corolla 16--25 mm wide, lavender to blue-purple, lobes < tube + throat, each with 2 +- green spots at base; anthers 3--5 mm. Fruit: 12--14 mm. Seed: +- 2 mm. Ecology: Shrubland, mixed-evergreen forest, woodland; Elevation: < 1600 m. Bioregional Distribution: NW (uncommon), deltaic GV, CW, SW; Distribution Outside California: Arizona, Baja California. Flowering Time: All year Note: May hybridize with Solanum parishii, Solanum xanti; needs study. Synonyms: Solanum umbelliferum var. glabrescens Torr.; Solanum umbelliferum var. incanum Torr. Jepson eFlora Author: Michael H. Nee Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Solanum triflorum Next taxon: Solanum wallacei
Botanical illustration including Solanum umbelliferum
Citation for this treatment: Michael H. Nee 2012, Solanum umbelliferum, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=44919, accessed on December 03, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.
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