Solanum chenopodioidesLam.

tall nightshade

WFO wfo-0001026988 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Solanum chenopodioides, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. a Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 199472406
Solanum chenopodioides, photographed by Arnim Littek
fig. b Arnim Littek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205981438
Solanum chenopodioides, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. c Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204472247
Solanum chenopodioides, photographed by Arnim Littek
fig. d Arnim Littek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204067121
Solanum chenopodioides, photographed by Piermario Maculan
fig. e Piermario Maculan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197558031
Solanum chenopodioides, photographed by Jenny Saito
fig. f Jenny Saito, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197684920
Solanum chenopodioides, photographed by demianlescano
fig. g demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197495501
Solanum chenopodioides, photographed by demianlescano
fig. h demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197496311

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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 = 1,651 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,651 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 18 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 aguaraquiya Sendtn.
  • Solanum amaranthifolium Gillies ex Rusby
  • Solanum americanum var. baylisii D'Arcy
  • Solanum besseri Weinm.
  • Solanum chenopodifolium Dunal
  • Solanum gracile Dunal
  • Solanum gracile var. gracile
  • Solanum gracile var. microphyllum Dunal
  • Solanum gracilius Herter
  • Solanum isabellei Dunal
  • Solanum nigrum var. aspergilliflorum Sendtn.
  • Solanum nodiflorum var. microphyllum Hassl.
  • Solanum ottonis Hyl.
  • Solanum sublobatum Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Solanum subspatulatum Sendtn.
  • Solanum vile Bitter
  • Solanum virgatum Endl. ex Sendtn.
  • Witheringia chenopodioides (Lam.) J.Rémy

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.