It has small red berries
What is this plant? ?
by
Bobbie
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It appeared in my flower bed as a tiny plant with tiny pretty purple flowers. I left it to see what it would become. It quickly took over my flowerbed. Is it a weed or flowering vine?
This was an empty bed in May
Pretty purple flowers
Hello, it looks like bittersweet nightshade.
Possibly vinca major. Left alone it will take over your neighborhood. If it's still in a small area, you can pull it out. If already spread, spray with round-up and be persistent. The roots run underground and it may come up again some distance away. To be honest, I save a tiny patch of it to pull up and plant in flower pots. It looks nice hanging over the sides.
It is a wild flower. The birds love the berries, they are poisonous to us.
It is an ivy type weed....it grows up in our lilac bush and eventually the berries will turn purple. It is very evasive....I pull them out as soon as I see them. In my flower bed and rose bed, they vine out till they find something to grow up on. When I miss pulling them, I see the vine waving toward the sky looking for something else to climb on. There is a name for it but it escapes me right now.
It is deadly nightshade. Very poisonous and invasive. https://allthatsinteresting.com/deadly-nightshade
It looks like a nightshade to me too, but not one that I've seen here in the UK so I am not sure which one. As other commenters have mentioned some varieties are very poisonous, although not all (tomatoes and potatoes are in the nightshade family I believe)
Looks like potatoe vine, although the flowers are usually larger than urs but this could be do to growing conditions. What did your extension agent say?