# Plant ID please **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 3, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086 "2020-05-03T22:36:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/1 "2020-05-03T22:36:24Z")
Came up in my back yard. About 5’ high right now. My google-fu is exhausted. [![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/6bb917fe-523c-4b6c-8b65-55f144ea55ea.jpeg) ](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/6bb917fe-523c-4b6c-8b65-55f144ea55ea.jpeg) Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/2 "2020-05-03T22:48:30Z")
Some sort of Solanum. (Sorry, can’t be more spocific.) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/3 "2020-05-03T22:50:52Z")
Possibly chokecherry, but hard to tell from that photo. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/4 "2020-05-03T22:54:58Z")
Thanks, that gives me someplace to start. Trying to decide if I should pull it. Here’s a better pic of the leaves if that helps. [![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/12e8b154-e1e2-47dd-89a7-a6c0db1ba4c3.jpeg) ](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/12e8b154-e1e2-47dd-89a7-a6c0db1ba4c3.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/5 "2020-05-03T22:57:34Z")
Looking at the online pics it doesn’t seem like chokecherry. Solanum looks more like it but there sure are lot of them. It’s near our bird feeder. Could it have been from commercial bird seed? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/6 "2020-05-03T23:10:57Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Some sort of Solanum. (Sorry, can’t be more spocific.) I agree. It definitely is in the nightshade family. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/7 "2020-05-03T23:15:42Z")
FWIW Google Lens thinks it might be [_Solanum douglasii_](https://www.google.com/search?q=Solanum+douglasii&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiiqO_86JjpAhWMLc0KHeITD2sQ_AUIBigB&biw=408&bih=646). ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/8 "2020-05-03T23:17:35Z")
Yep, a nightshade. Thanks everyone. ---
**Author:** ![GMANCANADA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gmancanada/32/2837_2.png) [@GMANCANADA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GMANCANADA)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/9 "2020-05-05T00:39:15Z")
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**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/10 "2020-05-05T01:16:00Z")
[Solanum nigrum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_nigrum), the European black nightshade or simply black nightshade, or blackberry nightshade? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/11 "2020-05-05T01:55:01Z")
I get that in my back yard and it’s wicked invasive–choked out basically every other plant I tried to grow. Nasty stuff. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/12 "2020-05-05T02:03:58Z")
I have some of it, too. I consider it a weed and pull it out, but I don’t get tons of it. I agree it looks like a nightshade, but don’t know it’s personal name. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/13 "2020-05-05T03:08:51Z")
Pretty sure it’s Frank. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/14 "2020-05-05T14:24:54Z")
Snap off a branch. Does it smell bad? But, yeah, I’d yank it w/o hesitation. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/15 "2020-05-05T16:15:45Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Pretty sure it’s Frank. Frank’s not here, man. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/16 "2020-05-05T17:38:38Z")
Oh, and the stuff is pretty poisonous so wear gloves and/or wash your hands after you mess with it. And it comes back really easily so dispose of it off your property–put it in a compost pile and you’re likely to have a grove of the shit. I’m pretty sure the gigantic tuberous root I dug up was from this shit that got enormous, the root was about the size and weight of a bowling ball. What I’m saying is, probably best not to tolerate it unless you want nothing but that in your yard. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-please/853086/17 "2020-05-05T19:12:35Z")
> [@GMANCANADA](#): > > Try Plant Snap. Free app for your phone, works great: > > [https://www.plantsnap.com](https://www.plantsnap.com) Thanks!