American black nightshade
Solanum americanum Mill.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- 69 cm
Solanaceae
Also called American nightshade, Glossy nightshade, Smallflower nightshade, Small-flowered Nightshade, Australian black nightshade
Formerly Solanum amarantoides, Solanum calvum, Solanum curtipes, Solanum depilatum, and 24 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. Canada to Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 76 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 46 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- hierba mora, chichiquelite, Quelite
- root
- doerxa, mustu'lut, tomaquilit
- Chinese
- 少花龍葵, 光果龍葵, 古钮菜
- Hawaiian
- pōpolo, Popolo, Pōpolo
- French
- Morelle d'Amérique, Brède morelle
- Czech
- lilek americký
- Portuguese
- maria-pretinha, Erva-moura, erva-moura
- Norwegian Bokmål
- adventivsøtvier
- Finnish
- amerikankoiso
- Japanese
- テリミノイヌホオズキ, カンザシイヌホオズキ
- Russian
- Паслён американский
- Ojibwa
- Esibanimizh
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Solanum americanum (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.