Solanum americanumMill.

American black nightshade

WFO wfo-0001025878 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Solanum americanum, photographed by Pablo
fig. a Pablo, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204949825
Solanum americanum, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. b Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203990362
Solanum americanum, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. c Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204064703
Solanum americanum, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. d Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198010180
Solanum americanum, photographed by Rodrigo Cesáreo Pampin
fig. e Rodrigo Cesáreo Pampin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198627445
Solanum americanum, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. f Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198006418
Solanum americanum, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. g Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197625383

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,282 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,282 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 88 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Solanum amarantoides Dunal
  • Solanum amarantoides var. amarantoides
  • Solanum americanum subsp. americanum
  • Solanum americanum subsp. nodiflorum (Jacq.) R.J.F.Hend.
  • Solanum americanum subsp. nutans (R.J.F.Hend.) R.J.F.Hend.
  • Solanum americanum var. americanum
  • Solanum americanum var. nodiflorum (Jacq.) Edmonds
  • Solanum americanum var. odishense Kalidass & P.Murugan
  • Solanum americanum var. patulum (L.) Edmonds
  • Solanum asperum Hornem. ex Walp.
  • Solanum asperum var. asperum
  • Solanum calvum Bitter
  • Solanum curtipes Bitter
  • Solanum decurrens Wall. ex Dunal
  • Solanum depilatum Bitter
  • Solanum desvauxii Ham.
  • Solanum dillenii Schult.
  • Solanum erythrocarpon G.Mey.
  • Solanum imerinense Bitter
  • Solanum inconspicuum Bitter
  • Solanum indecorum A.Rich.
  • Solanum inops Dunal
  • Solanum merrillianum Liou
  • Solanum microspermum Dunal

and 64 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.