page_title: Solanum elaeagnifolium
section_title: Synonyms
hierarchical_section_title: Solanum elaeagnifolium / Synonyms
caption_attribution_description: Solanum eleagnifolium in Phoenix, Arizona.
context_page_description: 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. More ambiguous names include "bull-nettle", "horsenettle" and the Spanish "trompillo". The plant is also endemic to the Middle East.
  Solanum elaeagnifolium was described by A. J. Cavanilles. The plant described under the same name by W. Herbert and C. L. Willdenow based on E.G. von Steudel is Solanum aethiopicum.
context_section_description: This plant has been described under a range of names, all now invalid. These contain many homonyms among them:
  Solanum dealbatum Lindl.
  Solanum flavidum Torr.
  Solanum incanum Pav. ex Dunal (non L.: preoccupied)
  S. incanum of Ruiz & Pavón Jiménez is S. albidum as described by Dunal.
  S. incanum of Kitaibel based on Kanitz is S. villosum as described by Philip Miller
  S. incanum of Scheff. is S. schefferi.
  S. incanum var. lichtensteinii and var. subexarmatum are S. lichtensteinii.
  Solanum leprosum Ortega
  Solanum obtusifolium Dunal (non Willd.: preoccupied)
  S. obtusifolium of Hartweg based on Otto Sendtner in von Martius is S. ferrugineum.
  S. obtusifolium of Willdenow is S. aethiopicum.
  Solanum pyriforme var. uniflorum Dunal
  Solanum roemerianum Scheele
  Solanum saponaceum Hook. (non Dunal: preoccupied)
  S. saponaceum of Welwitsch is S. aculeastrum.
  S. saponaceum var. uruguense is S. bonariense.
  Solanum texense Engelm. & A.Gray
  Solanum uniflorum Meyen ex Nees (non Dunal: preoccupied)
  S. uniflorum of de Conceição Vellozo is S. pseudocapsicum.
  S. uniflorum of Sessé & Mociño and S. uniflorum of Dunal in Poiret have been identified as Lycianthes mociniana.
  S. uniflorum of Lagasca y Segura and Solanum uniflorum var. berterianum are undetermined species of Lycianthes.
  Several varieties and forms of S. elaeagnifolium have been named. They are not usually considered taxonomically distinct:
  Solanum elaeagnifolium f. albiflorum Cockerell
  Solanum elaeagnifolium var. angustifolium Kuntze
  Not to be confused with S. angustifolium of Philip Miller
  Solanum elaeagnifolium var. argyrocroton Griseb.
  Solanum elaeagnifolium f. benkei Standl.
  Solanum elaeagnifolium var. grandiflorum Griseb.
  Not to be confused with S. grandiflorum of Ruiz and Pavón Jiménez
  Solanum elaeagnifolium var. leprosum (Ortega) Dunal
  Solanum elaeagnifolium var. obtusifolium (Dunal) Dunal
  S. elaeagnifolium var. ovalifolium does not refer to the S. ovalifolium as described by Dunal and does not belong to the present species; it is actually S. aridum. Meanwhile, S. crispum var. elaeagnifolium is just the normal S. crispum of Ruiz and Pavón Jiménez.
caption: Flowering branch of S. elaeagnifolium
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