- Family : SOLANACEAE
(Nightshade Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BAINGAN FAMILY (बैंगन फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Solanaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Solanum americanum Mill.
- Common name : American Black Nightshade
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Degraded moist deciduous forest areas and riversides, also in the plains
- Comments / notes : Cosmopolitan in distribution
- Flower, Fruit : March-November
- Distribution :
- Kerala : All districts
- Maharashtra : Satara district
- Native : Alabama, Alberta, Argentina, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, British Columbia, California, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, E
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Alabama, Alberta, Argentina, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, British Columbia, California, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Leeward Islands, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Prince Edward Island, Puerto Rico, Québec, Rhode Island, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Suriname, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Islands, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Windward Islands, Wisconsin, Wyoming
- Literature :
- Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Solanum americanum. Downloaded on 8 December 2024.
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