Deadly Nightshade
बेलाडोनाബല്ലഡോണ
Atropa bella-donna L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- 1.1 m
Solanaceae
Formerly Atropa borealis, Atropa caucasica, Atropa cordata, Atropa digitaloides, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to N. Iran, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 91 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension green, purple, red; Wikipedia purple, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Malayalam
- ബല്ലഡോണ
- Catalan
- Belladona
- Japanese
- ベラドンナ
- Chinese
- 颠茄, 颠茄草
- Simplified Chinese
- 颠茄
- Italian
- Belladonna
- Arabic
- ست الحسن
- Swedish
- Belladonna
- French
- Belladone
- Asturian
- belladona
- Azerbaijani
- Adi xanımotu
- Bulgarian
- Беладона
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Atropa bella-donna (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.