Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Solanales > Solanaceae > Solanum > Solanum americanumSolanum americanum (American black nightshade)Synonyms: Solanum aguaraquiya; Solanum amarantoides; Solanum americanum nodiflorum; Solanum americanum nutans; Solanum americanum patulum; Solanum americanum var. nodiflorum; Solanum americanum var. odishense; Solanum americanum var. patulum; Solanum asperum (homotypic); Solanum atriplicifolium (heterotypic); Solanum calvum; Solanum caribaeum; Solanum chousboe var. merrillianum; Solanum curtipes; Solanum depilatum (heterotypic); Solanum desvauxii; Solanum diodontum; Solanum erythrocarpon; Solanum gollmeri; Solanum imerinense; Solanum inconspicuum; Solanum indecorum; Solanum inops; Solanum merrillianum; Solanum microspermum; Solanum minutibaccatum; Solanum minutibaccatum curtipedunculatum; Solanum minutibaccatum var. curtipedunculatum; Solanum nigrum aguaraquiya (heterotypic); Solanum nigrum americanum; Solanum nigrum atriplicifolium; Solanum nigrum f. grandifolium; Solanum nigrum f. nodiflorum; Solanum nigrum f. parvifolium; Solanum nigrum f. rumphii; Solanum nigrum f. uniflorum; Solanum nigrum f. violaceum; Solanum nigrum glabrum; Solanum nigrum nodiflorum; Solanum nigrum pauciflorum; Solanum nigrum var. americanum (homotypic); Solanum nigrum var. angulosum (heterotypic); Solanum nigrum var. minor; Solanum nigrum var. minus; Solanum nigrum var. nodiflorum; Solanum nigrum var. oleraceum; Solanum nigrum var. patulum (heterotypic); Solanum nigrum var. pauciflorum; Solanum nigrum var. violaceum (homotypic); Solanum nigrum violaceum (homotypic); Solanum nigrum virginicum; Solanum nodiflorum (homotypic); Solanum nodiflorum acuminatum; Solanum nodiflorum fauriei; Solanum nodiflorum macrophyllum; Solanum nodiflorum micropyllum; Solanum nodiflorum nutans; Solanum nodiflorum petiolastrum; Solanum nodiflorum puberulum; Solanum nodiflorum var. acuminatum; Solanum nodiflorum var. fauriei; Solanum nodiflorum var. macrophyllum; Solanum nodiflorum var. petiolastrum; Solanum nodiflorum var. puberulum; Solanum nodiflorum var. sapucayense; Solanum nodiflorum var. sativum; Solanum oleraceum (heterotypic); Solanum oleraceum macrocarpum; Solanum pachystylum; Solanum papilionaceum; Solanum paredesii; Solanum patulum (heterotypic); Solanum pauciflorum (heterotypic); Solanum photeinocarpum; Solanum photeinocarpum var. violaceum; Solanum pterocaulon var. aguaraquiya; Solanum pterocaulon var. deppei; Solanum pterocaulon var. dichotimiflorum; Solanum pterocaulon var. heterogonum; Solanum pterocaulum var. aguaraquiya; Solanum ptycanthum; Solanum ptychanthum; Solanum purpuratum; Solanum rubrum (heterotypic); Solanum rumphii; Solanum sancti-thomae; Solanum sciadophilum; Solanum sciaphilum; Solanum strictum; Solanum suffruticosum; Solanum suffruticosum var. merrillianum; Solanum tenellum (heterotypic); Solanum tenuiflorum; Solanum umbelliferum Solanum ptychanthum, West Indian nightshade or eastern black nightshade, is an annual or occasionally perennial plant in the Solanaceae (Nightshade) family. It is typically 15–60 cm tall and many branched. |
| Allergen Potential [1] | Medium-Low |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
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Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Assateague Island National Seashore |
II |
8621 |
Maryland, United States |
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Badlands National Park |
II |
178535 |
South Dakota, United States |
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Blue Ridge Parkway National Parkway |
V |
73611 |
North Carolina, Virginia, United States |
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Bruce Peninsula National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Canaveral National Seashore |
II |
9090 |
Florida, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Hist. Park National Historical Park |
V |
19586 |
Maryland, District of Columbia, United States |
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Colonial National Historic Park National Historical Park |
V |
9316 |
Virginia, United States |
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Death Valley National Park |
II |
762125 |
California, Nevada, United States |
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El Palmar National Park |
II |
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Entre Rios, Argentina |
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Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve |
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Florida, United States |
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Fort Bowie National Historic Site |
III |
1004 |
Arizona, United States |
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Fort Donelson National Battlefield |
III |
560 |
Tennessee, United States |
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George Washington Memorial Parkway |
V |
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Virginia, United States |
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Georgian Bay Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Guanacaste National Park |
II |
85819 |
Costa Rica |
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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park |
VI |
715 |
West Virginia, United States |
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Homestead National Monument of America |
V |
850 |
Nebraska, United States |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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Knife River Indian Villages National Hist. Site National Historic Site |
III |
1756 |
North Dakota, United States |
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Mburucuyá National Park |
II |
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Corrientes, Argentina |
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Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve |
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5901 |
California, United States |
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Moores Creek National Battlefield |
III |
100 |
North Carolina, United States |
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National Capital Region - East National Park |
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District of Columbia, United States |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Obed Wild and Scenic River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
5268 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Palo Verde National Park |
II |
46190 |
Costa Rica |
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Pipestone National Monument |
V |
326 |
Minnesota, United States |
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Point Pelee National Park |
II |
5764 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Rock Creek Park |
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District of Columbia, United States |
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Rondeau Provincial Park |
II |
5035 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Saint Lawrence Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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20317 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Tuabaquey - Limones Ecological Reserve |
II |
4859 |
Cuba |
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Wind Cave National Park |
II |
29471 |
South Dakota, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 3Seed dispersal of Solanum thomasiifolium Sendtner (Solanaceae) in the Linhares Forest, Espírito Santo state, Brazil, João Vasconcellos-Neto, Lidiamar Barbosa de Albuquerque and Wesley Rodrigues Silva, Acta bot. bras. 23(4): 1171-1179. 2009 ♦ 4FORAGING ECOLOGY OF THE RED-CROWNED PARAKEET
(CYANORAMPHUS NOVAEZELANDIAE NOVAEZELANDIAE) AND
YELLOW-CROWNED PARAKEET (C. AURICEPS AURICEPS) ON
LITTLE BARRIER ISLAND, HAURAKI GULF, NEW ZEALAND, Terry C. Greene, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1998) 22(2): 161-171 ♦ 5New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ database♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 8Flower-visiting insects of the Galapagos Islands, McCullen, C. K. 1993. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 69:95-106 |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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