Yet another plant ID, please

 This thing came up in a railing planter recently. It's about a foot
high now. I decided to leave it there until I could determine whether
it's something I want to toss out or transplant and keep.

http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant1.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant2.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant3.jpg

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, if that helps at all.


Thanks!

Patty

 
A Solanum. I wouldn't dare attempt to identify American species.

Stewart Robert Hinsley

 

"Patty Winter"  wrote in message

This thing came up in a railing planter recently. It's about a foot
high now. I decided to leave it there until I could determine whether
it's something I want to toss out or transplant and keep.

http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant1.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant2.jpg
http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plant/plant3.jpg

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, if that helps at all.


Thanks!

Patty

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Hard to say (for me it'd be easier seeing the berries as well as flowers)
but a rough guess would be Solanum nigrum.
In any case, it's something I'd not want in any of _my_ planters.

 Thank you, Stewart and Nelly!

Nelly, the berries on this one aren't ripe yet, but I think
I had another one of these in another planter a while back,
and its flowers were black. So it may be a solanum negrum.
In any event, given the leaf and flower photos I've found,
I'm sure you're both correct that it's something in the
solanum family. (But not a tomato. I do know how to recognize
those. :-))


Patty

 
'Patty Winter[_2_ Wrote:

The Solanum genus is very large and diverse, but helpfully divided into
a number of sections. S nigrum is in the section confusingly called the
Solanum section.  This wiki article on S americanum gives you some clues
on distinguishing some of the similar species in that section. 'Solanum
americanum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'
(http://tinyurl.com/6kqy2j )




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