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Buffalobur

LATIN NAME
Solanum rostratum

LONGEVITY
Annual

SEASON
Warm

ORIGIN
Native

DETAILS:

  • Other common names include “Buffalobur nightshade” and “Prickly nightshade”. The name “Buffalobur” comes from this plant being abundant around buffalo wallows. This undesirable weed is a member of the nightshade family and will grow almost anywhere.
  • Quite drought-resistant and extremely aggressive.
  • Flowers May to September.
  • When mature, the main stem breaks near the ground and the plant rolls around like a tumbleweed, widely scattering approximately 8,500 seeds that each plant produces in a prickly-bur seed capsule.
  • The seed is utilized by quail as a food source.
  • Can poison horses, sheep and cattle. The toxic agent is glycoalkaloid solanine.

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