SOLANACE^— NIGHTSHADE FAMILY 



NIGHTSHADE. BLUE BINDWEED 



Soldnum dulcamara 



Solanum, quieting, in reference to the poisonous char- 

 acter of the genus. 



A perennial vine on roadsides, moist banks in waste 

 places and around dwellings. Naturalized from Europe. 



New Brunswick to Minnesota, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Kansas. 

 May-September. 



Stem. — Climbing, scrambling, and 

 straggling, somewhat woody below, 

 often stained purple. Two to seven 

 feet high. 



Leaves. — Petioled, two to four 

 inches long, heart-shaped, ovate or 

 hastate in outline, acute or acumi- 

 nate, entire, three-lobed or three- 

 parted, with the terminal segment 

 much the largest; veining marked 

 and midrib prominent. 



XT- 1,* v! ^ c 7A Flowers. — Blue-purple, or white, 



Nightshade. Soldnum i i ^ n • i i 



dulcamara boine laterally in loose, compound 



clusters. 



_ Ca/>'x.— Bell-shaped, five-lobed; lobes short, obtuse, per- 

 sistent at the base of the berry. 



Corolla. — Wheel-shaped, five-lobed; lobes lanceolate, 

 acute, refiexed. 



Stamens. — Five, inserted on the throat of the corolla; 

 anthers oblong, grown together into a cone and dis- 

 charging pollen by a terminal opening. 



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