Showing posts with label nightshade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nightshade. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Lovely, Transient, and Poisonous

Such beauty only lasts an evening---by the next morning this flower will have dropped off, its beauty over and done with.

And although quite a beauty, you wouldn't want  Jimson Weed in your yard; it is poisonous to pets and humans.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Nightshade

Poisonous plants abound in the nightshade family; a family that includes tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco, and peppers.

This native specimen was blooming at the Dunes recently and is poisonous.