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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Nightshade Family
  7. Nightshades
  8. Black Nightshade Complex

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Black Nightshade Complex

Solanum nigrum

Includes
4 native 3 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Black Nightshade introduced
  • American Black Nightshade native
  • Eastern Black Nightshade native
  • Greenspot Nightshade native
  • Tall Nightshade present
  • Red Nightshade
  • Divine Nightshade present
  • Hairy Nightshade introduced
  • Wonderberry
  • Garden Huckleberry present
  • Dark Nightshade native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native black nightshade complex All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • American Black Nightshade Solanum americanum caterpillars 36 bees 1 hosts 2 food 34 flowers 22
  • Eastern Black Nightshade Solanum emulans caterpillars 34 bees 1 hosts 1 food 20 flowers 18
  • Greenspot Nightshade Solanum douglasii caterpillars 23 bees 1 hosts 2 food 17 flowers 15
  • Dark Nightshade Solanum opacum

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