We have them here they grow on the fence by the shade of all the neighbors trees. In Fridley a friend found then in her garden.

Growing outside the backdoor at my current place of employment between cement and blacktop in Champlin and planted pine areas in Uncas Dunes SNA.

I have this plant, but with purple flowers on it, growing along a fence in my yard. Is this something I need to get rid of? I'm not worried about anyone ingesting, but wondering if it's anything that might affect someone with skin contact?

Just discovered these have overtaken my garden. I planted a bunch of new plants this year thought this was perhaps a weird bean or something until I noticed the berries. It has out grown everything else in my garden! Looking online-- I found recipes with the berries, so hope to use the berries for jelly or something....

These just started popping up in my planters.

Have one plant growing smack dab in the middle of my front lawn. No idea how it got there. Have some bittersweet nightshade growing in my back yard too.

These plants are growing all around our house. They are covered in berries some ripe, others still green. Are they poisonous, I have a toddler granddaughter and pets that I wouldn't want to get sick from these plants.

I didn't notice this in our yard last year but now it is growing all over, including right in the middle of the grass. Seems very easy to pull though.

I think I have this plant growing in two of my flower pots! I used the 'PlantSnap' app to try to identify it, and this is the app's response. The flowers are white, very miniature, and the berries began as dark green, then turned very dark/shiny black. Should I just pull them out? And I also discovered what I think may be a buckthorn next to my garage. Is there a way to get someone to come and check it out?

Mary, yes that sounds like black nightshade. It's weedy and I pull it wherever I see it in my own yard. As for the buckthorn, you might ask a Master Gardener.

I just found this in my garden bed. This is the first time I've ever seen it. I will be pulling and destroying.

This plant has been popping up in my butterfly/bee garden for about 4 years. As soon as I see it it's out. Why does it keep coming back?

I get a crop of these every year!

This grows in my parents' yard. I let some of them grow now because they seem to be eaten by some kind of wildlife, with all those holes in the leaves, and I snack on the fully ripe berries (fully purple-black with individual berry stems beginning to detach from the umbel stem). The unripe berries taste unpleasant, which suggests they may be somewhat toxic, so I avoid them.

Gabriel, as you suspected, the unripe fruit contains the highest concentration of toxins and should probably not be consumed.

In 2022, on Ideal street near Swan Lake Road where an area was torn up along the side of the road and some fill was added in the shade of a weedy "hedge", about ten Black Nightshade plants found it PERFECT for growing and producing their small black berries. They were gone in 2023, but a few volunteered in my vegetable garden. In the Fall, I put one in a flower pot and grew it near my kitchen window. It produced tiny white mini-tomato flowers all winter, and very many 1/4" dia. black berries. I could smell a pleasant fruity smell when near the plant, which explains why the berries are referred to as "fragrant tomato"in India, according to Wikipedia.

{I was referring to the Wikipedia "Solanum_nigrum" (European black nightshade) page in the previous comment. These local Black Nightshade berries, when ripe, smell slightly similar to Strawberries, but have no similarity in flavor. (caution: may be toxic.)