*This item is not for sale and listed as a plant library product for educational purposes only.
LATIN NAME
Solanum rostratum
LONGEVITY
Annual
SEASON
Warm
ORIGIN
Native
DETAILS
• Other common names include “Buffalobur nightshade” and “Prickly nightshade”. The name “Buffalobur” comes from this plant being abundant around buffalo wallows. This undesirable weed is a member of the nightshade family and will grow almost anywhere.
• Quite drought-resistant and extremely aggressive.
• Flowers May to September.
• When mature, the main stem breaks near the ground and the plant rolls around like a tumbleweed, widely scattering approximately 8,500 seeds that each plant produces in a prickly-bur seed capsule.
• The seed is utilized by quail as a food source.
• Can poison horses, sheep and cattle. The toxic agent is glycoalkaloid solanine.
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