Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Solanum nigrum L.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Solanum nigrum
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
L.
Common names
Black Nightshade, European black nightshade, Poisonberry, blackberry nightshade, common nightshade, garden nightshade
Names in other languages (39)'enab el-deeb, (svartsøtvier), Codwarth Caled, Codwarth Du, Cysgadur, Cysgiadur, Gedawrach, Gedorwrach, Gewöhnlicher Schwarzer Nachtschatten, Llysiau'r Moch, Melys a Chwerw, Mochlys, Mochlys Cyffredin, Mochlys Duon, Mochlys Grawnddu, Morella comune, Morelle noire, Schwarzer Nachtschatten, Schwarzer Nachtschatten (DE); Black Nightshade (EN); Yerbamora negra (ES), Sort natskygge, Zwarte + Beklierde nachtschade, Zwarte en Beklierde nachtschade, Zwarte nachtschade, Zwarte nachtschade en beklierde nachtschade, crève-chien, deadly nightshade, erva-moura, hierba mora, idjadávvir, mustakoiso, nattskatta, pimenta-de-galinha, svartsøtvier, tue-chien, ugrassøtvier, ugresssøtvier, vanleg svartsøtvier, vanlig svartsøtvier, イヌホオズキ
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Solanales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Solanaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Solanum
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
nigrum
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Solanum nigrum
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Not evaluated (NE)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-12 18:12.
Photo of Solanum nigrum L.
Photo: guywallbanks · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Solanum nigrum L.
Photo: Duarte Frade · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Solanum nigrum L.
Photo: Karen Fry · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Solanum nigrum L.
Photo: Michael D. Pirie · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Solanum nigrum L.
Photo: Dave Richardson · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Solanum nigrum L.
Photo: Maeve Hall · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-12 18:12.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

The catalogue knows this species and publishes no interaction for it.

It does not mean it interacts with nothing: it means nobody has published it.

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

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