Wildflowers Found in Oregon

European Bittersweet

Solanum dulcamara - Rhizomatous perennial, often somewhat woody, stems leafy, vine-like, 1-3 m tall or long, tending to climb or sprawl on other vegetation. Leaves alternate , stalked, 3-8 cm long, some unlobed and egg-shaped to somewhat heart-shaped, others with a pair of ear-like lobes or leaflets at the base, short-hairy to hairless. Flowers blue-violet, resembling a shooting star or a tomato flower; petals fused into a short tube at the base, with 5 pointed, reflexed lobes 5-9 mm long, like a star with the points arching backward; stamens 5, joined in a conspicuous yellow cone; 5-25 on branches from a short stalk off the stem. Fruits bright-red berries, shaped like fat footballs. Found in waste places, thickets, roadsides, open forest, moist clearings, at low elevations.