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Poison - Its fruit is poisonous to livestock.
Mexico, USA
Temperate biome.
Annual/perennial herb 30-90 cm tall.
Ovate, membranous leaves, 4-8 x 2-4 cm. Green, slightly hairy, becoming smoother with age. Flat or wedge-shaped base, entire or slightly toothed margins, pointed tip.
White (rarely bluish/purplish) flowers in clusters of 4-10. Short stalks, cup-shaped sepals with fringed hairs, reflexed in fruit. Petals are more than half-divided, ovate-oblong. Flowers appear in leaf axils.
Hiny black. spherical berries, 5-8 mm in diameter.
Flowering: Feb-August