Species
Solanum umbelliferum (Bluewitch nightshade)
Solanum umbelliferum. Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Solanum umbelliferum is a species of nightshade known commonly as bluewitch nightshade, or bluewitch. It can be found in chaparral habitat and low-elevation oak woodlands in California and parts of Baja California and Arizona. It is a small perennial herb or subshrub with dark gray-green oval-shaped leaves on hairy green stems that grow to a maximum height of one meter. It has bright purple or blue frilly flowers with thick yellow anthers at the center. The
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
- Order: Solanales (Nightshades, bindweeds, gooseweeds, and allies)
- Family: Solanaceae (Nightshade family)
- Subfamily: Solanoideae (Nightshades and allies)
- Tribe: Solaneae (Nightshades and jaltomatas)
- Genus: Solanum (Nightshades)
- Species: Solanum umbelliferum (Bluewitch nightshade)
- Genus: Solanum (Nightshades)
- Tribe: Solaneae (Nightshades and jaltomatas)
- Subfamily: Solanoideae (Nightshades and allies)
- Family: Solanaceae (Nightshade family)
- Order: Solanales (Nightshades, bindweeds, gooseweeds, and allies)
- Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
