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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Solanum xanti''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| subclassis = [[Asteridae]]
| ordo = [[Solanales]]
| familia = [[Solanaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Solanum]]''
| species = '''''S. xanti'''''
| binomial = ''Solanum xanti''}}
'''Purple Nightshade''', or '''''Solanum xanti''''', is a semi-evergreen perennial [[shrub]] native to [[California]]. It grows in shrublands, oak/pine woodlands, and coniferous forests, to 4,000 feet elevation, in sandy or rocky soil. It is native in areas that receive 10-20" of rainfall and prefers partial sun. It and ranges from two to four feet in height, and two to four feet in width.<ref>http://www.theodorepayne.org/gallery/pages/S/solanum_xanti.htm</ref>

Purple Nightshade flowers are a blue purple and approximately an inch wide, and foliage is dark green. <ref>http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/646.htm</ref> It blooms in spring to early summer. The plant is poisonous to humans.

[[Category:Solanum]]
[[Category:Poisonous plants]]