Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Solanum chenopodioides
Common name
Whitetip nightshade
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Disturbed sites, gullies, stream banks, and moist areas. Coast, ranges, tablelands, and ACT. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 1 m high, sprawling, green or grey-green, hairy with simple hairs; prickles absent. Leaves alternating up the stems, usually 2–7 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, upper surface sparsely hairy, lower surface more densely hairy, margins entire or shallowly lobed, tips pointed. Flowers white, 12–20 mm in diameter, star shaped, with 5 deeply incised lobes, in clusters of 5–10 flowers. Flowers Spring to Autumn. Fruit black, 5–9 mm in diameter, stalk curved down.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solanum~chenopodioides (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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