Plant Identification - Nightshade?

Peccavi

Northeast US (NH)

Hey everyone, got a bunch of this stuff growing around my garden and want some help identifying it. Best I can tell from googling "Green Berries that turn black" is Nightshade, and it has small white flowers with yellow middles which seems to match (might be hard to see in photo), but just want to make sure I know what it is before trimming it back.

Athenor

I reached out to a friend of mine who is insanely knowledgable about plants, and here's her reply:

"Solanum ptychanthum, or eastern black nightshade. a common annual"

So yup, you are right on!

Edit: Update on this from her.

"sidenote, the berries on the nightshade in the photo are green so they're not ripe - totally safe. if they were dark black/purple and ripe then yeah, do not eat or get into an open wound."

Peccavi

Athenor wrote: »

I reached out to a friend of mine who is insanely knowledgable about plants, and here's her reply:

"Solanum ptychanthum, or eastern black nightshade. a common annual"

So yup, you are right on!

Edit: Update on this from her.

"sidenote, the berries on the nightshade in the photo are green so they're not ripe - totally safe. if they were dark black/purple and ripe then yeah, do not eat or get into an open wound."

Awesome, thank you! And yeah, definitely not planning on eating anything called nightshade.

Burtletoy

Peccavi wrote: »

Athenor wrote: »

I reached out to a friend of mine who is insanely knowledgable about plants, and here's her reply:

"Solanum ptychanthum, or eastern black nightshade. a common annual"

So yup, you are right on!

Edit: Update on this from her.

"sidenote, the berries on the nightshade in the photo are green so they're not ripe - totally safe. if they were dark black/purple and ripe then yeah, do not eat or get into an open wound."

Awesome, thank you! And yeah, definitely not planning on eating anything called nightshade.

So no tomatoes, potato's, eggplant, or peppers

HappylilElf

Burtletoy wrote: »

Peccavi wrote: »

Athenor wrote: »

I reached out to a friend of mine who is insanely knowledgable about plants, and here's her reply:

"Solanum ptychanthum, or eastern black nightshade. a common annual"

So yup, you are right on!

Edit: Update on this from her.

"sidenote, the berries on the nightshade in the photo are green so they're not ripe - totally safe. if they were dark black/purple and ripe then yeah, do not eat or get into an open wound."

Awesome, thank you! And yeah, definitely not planning on eating anything called nightshade.

So no tomatoes, potato's, eggplant, or peppers

Ok look no one can stop me from slowly killing myself via potatoes, tomatoes, or peppers but I'm guessing Peccavi probably just means the ones that just kill you outright :P

JebusUD

It's definitely nightshade. It grows everywhere like crazy. I pulled it out of my yard and landscaping as much as I could, because the berries are supposed to be tasty, which makes it a problem for kids.

Fiendishrabbit

Athenor wrote: »

"sidenote, the berries on the nightshade in the photo are green so they're not ripe - totally safe. if they were dark black/purple and ripe then yeah, do not eat or get into an open wound."

Or intentionally squeeze the juice it into your eyes (like fashionable ladies of the 19th century). Unless you're a trained eye doctor. They still do that (eyedrops meant to dilate the pupil still contain belladonna extract).

zepherin

Fiendishrabbit wrote: »

Athenor wrote: »

"sidenote, the berries on the nightshade in the photo are green so they're not ripe - totally safe. if they were dark black/purple and ripe then yeah, do not eat or get into an open wound."

Or intentionally squeeze the juice it into your eyes (like fashionable ladies of the 19th century). Unless you're a trained eye doctor. They still do that (eyedrops meant to dilate the pupil still contain belladonna extract).

Or the “Makeup” used in the 17th century Aqua Tofana.

Romantic Undead

Oh by the way guys, I thought it might be fun to mention that there's an app that I use called "PictureThis" that does a pretty decent job of identifying plants using your phone. My wife loves to use it all the time and it seems to be decently accurate:

https://www.picturethisai.com/