Carolina horse nettle is a native warm-season perennial herb or subshrub that grows erect or sprawling and is spread by rhizomes and seeds. It can grow up to 4 feet tall and has prickles along the stems and leaves. The light violet or white star-shaped flowers appear in the summer and fall., Solanum elaeagnifolium, the silverleaf nightshade [1] 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., grass pastures and hay fields. Horsenettle plants emerge each spring from seed or from rhizomes. The cotyledons or seed leaves of seedlings are small; they are glossy green on the upper surface and light green on the underside. Both surfaces are void of hairs, but the leaf margins are hairy. Mature plants can grow to heights of up to 3 feet., If you want your Western Horsenettle to grow healthy and bloom as much as possible during its blooming season, you should try to give your plant six hours of direct sunlight., Fruit of the horsenettle are smooth berries (1-1.5 cm (~1/2â€) in diameter) that turn from green to yellow during maturation and contain 40-170 seeds inside. The smooth seeds are round, flattened, and glossy with an orange or light yellow color., Fruits are light green in color with green coloring, but turn yellow at maturity. Horsenettle is found in pastures, orchards and landscape beds. Horsenettle will grow in a variety of soil types, but does best in sand soils. Horsenettle is found in the eastern United States, west to Kansas and Texas..