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{{taxobox
|name = ''Solanum xanti''
|image = Solanum xanti1DawnEndico.jpg
|regnum = [[Plantae]]
|unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]]
|unranked_classis = [[Eudicots]]
|unranked_ordo = [[Asterids]]
|ordo = [[Solanales]]
|familia = [[Solanaceae]]
|genus = ''[[Solanum]]''
|species = '''''S. xanti'''''
|binomial = ''Solanum xanti''
|binomial_authority = [[Asa Gray|A. Gray]]
|}}
'''Purple Nightshade''' ('''''Solanum xanti''''') or '''San Diego Nightshade''' is a semi-evergreen perennial [[vine]], originally native to [[California]], it can now be found in most of [[North America]]. It grows in shrublands, oak/pine woodlands, as well as deciduous and coniferous forests, to {{convert|4000|ft|m}} elevation, in sandy, rocky or clay soils. It is found in areas that receive 10-20" of rainfall annually and prefers partial sun. It 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 California Native Plants Gallery: Solanum xanti<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>  Purple Nightshade has been observed 'climbing' higher on fences, shrubs and saplings, sometimes 'choking' or blocking sunlight thereby killing off the host plant.

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 Solanum xanti Purple Nightshade<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> It blooms in spring to early summer. The plant is poisonous to humans.  Due to Purple Nightshade's poisonous nature, tomatoes (also a member of the Nightshade family) were thought to be as equally toxic by many North Americans as late as the early eighteenth century.

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