Broadleaves

Black nightshade

Soft upright herb with egg shaped leaves, small white star flowers with yellow centers and clusters of shiny black berries; the unripe berries are poisonous.

Solanum americanum Broadleaves, annual Fact sheet
Black nightshade (Solanum americanum) with clusters of small green berries among its leaves
Photo: Carl Ramirez, CC BY, via iNaturalist

Also called

Lubi lubi

Crops it troubles

How to tell it is a broadleaf

Wide leaves with a net of veins. The group decides what kills it, so check the stem and the leaf before you buy a herbicide.

How to keep it out

Pull it before the berries ripen, and keep it out of tomato, eggplant and pepper fields, where it carries the same pests and diseases.

How to control it

What to do and which active ingredients work depend on your crop and how old it is. The weed control helper in anee.io gives both, for tomato and every other crop it grows in.

Open the weed control helper

Where this comes from

Not sure it is this one?

Many weeds look alike. Send a photo to Anee, the smart farm technician in anee.io. She reads it with your crop, its age and the weather, and tells you what it most likely is and what to do first. In Tagalog or English.

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