Purple nightshade
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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.[1]
Purple Nightshade flowers are a blue purple and approximately an inch wide, and foliage is dark green. [2] It blooms in spring to early summer. The plant is poisonous to humans.