Silverleaf Nightshade is toxic to animals. This plant reproduces by seed and creeping root stalks. Make sure to include summer cereal into your crop rotation due to the fact that they are tolerant to herbicides that need to be used on Silverleaf Nightshade. It particularly affects vegetables and cereals such as alfalfa, corn, sorghum and wheat.Silverleaf nightshade has not been found in Canada. Solanum elaeagnifolium, the silverleaf nightshade or silver-leaved nightshade, is a common plant, and sometimes weed of western North America and also found in South America.Other common names include prairie berry, silverleaf nettle, white horsenettle or silver nightshade.In South Africa it is known as silver-leaf bitter-apple or satansbos ("Satan's bush" in Afrikaans). May to September is the time period Silverleaf Nightshade blooms.
The stems have prickles that are red to a tannish colour, producing young shoots that are a dull silver-gray colour. Its seeds are spread naturally by birds, animals, wind and water.Silverleaf nightshade is regulated as a pest in Canada under the It has the ability to re-establish in areas that have been under control for many years.Cultural control methods can work with this plant if you make sure to get rid of all the rootstock. The showy violet or bluish (sometimes white) flowers are followed by round, yell…