Bittersweet nightshade
Solanum dulcamara L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.8 m
- wide
- 1.5 m
Solanaceae
Also called Bittersweet, Woody nightshade, Climbing bittersweet, Climbing nightshade, Trailing Nightshade
Formerly Dulcamara flexuosa, Lycopersicon dulcamara, Solanum asiae-mediae, Solanum assimile, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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
- Scrambling shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Azores, Temp. Eurasia to N. Indo-China, 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
- 61 cm to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 2.4 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- bitterzoet, Bitterzoet
- German
- Bittersüßer Nachtschatten, Bittersüsser Nachtschatten, Bittersüss
- Italian
- dulcamara, morella rampicante, Dulcamara
- root
- SOLDUL, Marubano-horoshi, Մորմ քաղցրադառնավուն
- Russian
- Паслён сладко-горький
- Finnish
- punakoiso
- French
- morelle douce-amère, Douce-amère
- Spanish
- dulcámara, uvas del diablo, Dulcamara
- Czech
- lilek potměchuť
- Lithuanian
- Paprastasis karklavijas, Karklavijas
- Danish
- Bittersød natskygge, Bittersød Natskygge
- Swedish
- Besksöta, vanlig besksöta
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, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Solanum dulcamara (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.