Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native plants @ Wildflowers. Part 3., 1 by frostweed

frostweed wrote:
Another lovely find at Pappy Elkins, we were quite lucky that day. This native plant grows just about everywhere even through asfalt, but beleive it or not, I just can't get it to do well in my garden. May be my soil is too rich for it, I don't know. This one has specially large flowers.

Silver-Leaf Nightshade, ( Solanum elaeagnifolium ) this is a perennial and they claim very difficult to eradicate, it is also poisonous. The berries mashed and mixed with cream are said to be a cure for poison ivy. There is also a white flowered form, not as common.