Solanum xanti - Purple nightshade

Purple nightshade (Solanum xanti) is a two- to three-foot California perennial with purple flowers, found under oak trees at the chaparral edge and in loam and clay soils. It grows 0.7-1 m tall and about 1 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Semi-shade¹
• Moist soil¹

Type

• Herb¹
• Perennial¹

Functions

• Fire resistance²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.7-1
Diameter (m)	1

Footnotes

1. Solanum xanti, Purple Nightshade | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩