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Plant Profile  

Common Name: Silverleaf Nightshade

Other Names: White Horse-Nettle

Species Name: Solanum elaeagnifolium  

Plant Type: Forb

Family Name: Solanaceae, Nightshade Family

 

 

 

 

Plant Facts  
Origin Native
Duration Perennial
Distribution in the U.S. South central from Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana southwest to Arizona
Distribution in Oklahoma Throughout the state

 

 

ID Characteristics

 

 

Habitat/Ecology  
Soil Type Clay, loam and sandy soils
Habitat Cultivated fields, feedlots, right-of-ways, overgrazed pastures and waste areas
Successional Stage Early, but grows in all stages

 

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