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Black nightshade

Key West Field Guide, vegetable

Solanum chenopodioides

  • nodding flowers
  • multiple flowers
  • unripe green berries
  • ripe berries
  • underside of leaves
  • flowers, leaves, and fruits

Black nightshade (Solanum chenopodioides) growing curbside in Key West. The features that differentiate it from other nightshade species:

  • all surfaces with simple hairs
  • no stellate hairs
  • no prickles
  • black fruits when ripe

Find more info here.

Tearshrub

Key West Field Guide, vegetable

Vallesia antillana

  • Vallesia antillana flowers
  • Vallesia antillana fruit
  • Vallesia antillana fruit

An endangered species in the Florida Keys, this individual is being nurtured by the Key West Tropical Forest and Botanical Garden. Someday, I hope to find a wild specimen.

Find more info here.

November Wildflowers in Key West – 2018

Key West Field Guide, vegetable

Click on the flower names at the bottom of this post for more images and links to species information.

  • Citron zephyrlily
  • Creeping sourgrass
  • Sleepy morning
  • Bitter melon
  • Straggler daisy
  • Least snoutbean
  • Pencilflower
  • Bracted fanpetals
  • Jamaican feverweed
  • Common purslane
  • Snow squarestem
  • False shrubby buttonweed
  • Yellow joyweed
  • Santa Maria feverfew
  • Pillpod sandmat
  • Virginia pepperweed
  • False daisy
  • Coatbuttons
  • Erect spiderling
  • Turkey tangle fogfruit
  • Spanish needles
  • Silverhead
  • Seaside heliotrope
  • Beach naupaka
  • Coastal sea rocket
  • Goatweed
  • Tex-Mex tobacco
  • Shoreline purslane
  • Guinea hen weed
  • Whitemouth dayflower
  • Grannybush
  • Powderpuff
  • Railroad vine
  • Baybean
  • Lilac tasselflower
  • Beggar’s-ticks
  • Scarlet spiderling
  • Creeping indigo
  • Painted leaf
  • Carry me seed
  • ID pending

Unidentified wildflower #2

Key West Field Guide, vegetable
Still working on identifying this one. Please comment if you have any ideas. I know it is in the dayflower family, but it doesn’t have the translucent lower petals of Commelina erecta, but I didn’t get a good enough picture of the other parts to narrow the ID down. Luckily, I can revisit this plant tomorrow.