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Hyoscyamus niger (henbane; black henbane)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hyoscyamus niger, commonly known as henbane, black henbane or stinking nightshade, is a poisonous plant in the family Solanaceae.
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Infraspecies

Hyoscyamus niger var. agrestis
Hyoscyamus niger var. bohemicus
Hyoscyamus niger var. niger

Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  All parts of the plant are very toxic; Symptoms of poisoning include impaired vision, convulsions, coma and death from heart or respiratory failure;
Lifespan [1]  Annual/Biennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [1]  The flowers emit a sickly fishy smell.
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [1]  The leaves scattered about a house will drive away mice;
Height [1]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [1]  39 inches (1 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Very Rich
Soil Moisture [2]  Mostly Dry
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Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces orontii[6]
Peronospora hyoscyami[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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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