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Purple nightshade   /pˈərpəl nˈaɪtʃˌeɪd/   Listen
Purple nightshade

noun
1.
Weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America.  Synonyms: prairie berry, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, Solanum elaeagnifolium, trompillo, white horse nettle.






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"Purple nightshade" Quotes from Famous Books



... orach beds are wholly marine. Inside the dikes and ditches are filled with a purely sweet-water vegetation. Further seawards, or rather riverwards, at a place called "Sluis," they are fringed with wild rose and wild plum, and the ditches are deep in rushes, in willow herb, in purple nightshade, water-mint, and reeds. ...
— The Naturalist on the Thames • C. J. Cornish



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