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Help with a plant ID?

Beautiful flowers are popping up all over here in the Twin Cities.  I’ve been enjoying all of it, but there’s one species that’s got me puzzled.  It looks like a member of the nightshade family, and it seems to like growing in weedy places on parking strips and drainage gardens.  It’s all over the place.

What is this?

Foliage

Flowers

Fruits. Sorry it’s blurry.

Also, for your viewing enjoyment, here’s some milkweed and bee balm:

A Visual Tour of Berkeley, Part 1

The houses here are only three or four feet away from the sidewalk. Homeowners compensate with these xerophyllic plantings that explode out of the itty bitty space allotted for them:


There’s something neat to look at on every block in downtown:




And yes, that says “Mexican, Pakistani, Indian” on the sign. It’s all one restaurant.