Bittersweet Nightshade

Family: Tomato (Alien)
Season: spring/summer/fall

Last Update: 04Jun97

(Jun-96; Mom/Dad)

Bittersweet Nightshade

A common vine found in moist oroadsides, waste places, and scrub. Purple flower with yellow athers formed into a beak and small red tomato-like berries - poisonous, especially to children, though not as poisonous as Deadly Nightshade.


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