Greenspot nightshade

Solanum douglasii, the greenspot or Douglas's nightshade, is a perennial herb or subshrub of the nightshade family (Solanaceae) reaching up to about 2 meters in height, with stems clothed in short white hairs. Leaves are alternate, ovate to lanceolate, up to 9 centimeters long, with smooth or shallowly toothed margins and slender petioles. The flowers are arranged in small umbrella-shaped cymes; each star-shaped corolla is up to about 1 centimeter wide, white, and characteristically marked with green or yellow-green spots at the bases of the five recurved lobes - the feature that gives the plant its common name. Bright yellow anthers form a central cone, and flowering occurs through most of the year. The fruit is a spherical berry up to 1 centimeter in diameter that ripens from green to glossy black. The species is native to scrub, chaparral, and open woodland of the southwestern and south-central United States and northern Mexico, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and Baja California.