Ground-cherry Nightshade - Solanum physalifolium
Other Names:
Hairy Nightshade, Green Nightshade, Hoe Nightshade,
Solanum sarrachoides
Annual. Stems ascending to erect, branched, 5–40 cm. Herbage glandular-villous. Leaf blades lanceolate to ovate, sinuate to dentate, 2–6 cm long. Inflorescence axillary, few-flowered corymbs; peduncle 5–10 mm long. Flowers: calyx lobes ca. 1 mm long; corolla white, lobes spreading, ca. 2 mm long; anthers 1–2 mm long. Berry becoming yellowish, 6–7 mm long, half enclosed in the swollen calyx (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus vagans,
Bombus auricomus,
Bombus fervidus,
Bombus terricola,
Bombus pensylvanicus,
Bombus bimaculatus,
Bombus griseocollis, and
Bombus impatiens (Colla and Dumesh 2010, Colla et al. 2011, Williams et al. 2014, Tripoldi and Szalanski 2015).