American Black Nightshade
Solanum americanumnative · Central Texas
American Black Nightshade is a shrub native to Central Texas that grows 1–3 ft tall and 3 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles clay soil. Blooms green, white and yellow in summer and fall. Good for bees and birds.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (4–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 1–3 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Bloom
- Summer, Fall · green, white, yellow
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on clay, loam, moist, sand, well drained
- Wildlife
- Supports bees and birds
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes
462 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.