Common name: Three-flowered Nightshade
Solanum triflorum Nutt. APNI* 
Description: Sprawling annual herb, sparsely hairy with simple hairs; stems to 1 m long, sometimes rooting at nodes; prickles absent.
Leaves pinnatifid to pinnatisect, ovate to elliptic in outline, 2–4 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, lobes lobed or toothed, margins recurved and thickened; slightly discolorous, both surfaces green, sparsely hairy; petiole 0.5–1 cm long.
Inflorescences 1–3-flowered, with small terminal leaflet; peduncle 10–30 mm long; pedicels 3–5 mm long. Calyx 3–5 mm long; lobes 1.5–2 mm long, slightly larger and becoming reflexed in fruit. Corolla stellate, 5–6 mm diam., white or rarely pale lavender.
Berry 8–12 mm diam., whitish green, marbled.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Weed of disturbed areas, east from Finley. Native of N Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *SWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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