Summary
Place of publication:
Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 6:88. 1896
Verified:
12/01/2010
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
- Connolly, B. A. 2008. Six new vascular plant taxa for Connecticut. Rhodora 110:354-358.
- Edmonds, J. M. 1986. Biosystematics of Solanum sarrachoides Sendtner and S. physalifolium Rusby (S. nitidibaccatum Bitter). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 92:25-36.
- Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. 2008
- Moerman, D. Native American ethnobotany, ed. 5. 1998
- Nee, M. 1999. Synopsis of Solanum in the New World. Solanaceae IV: advances in biology and utilization. 1999 307.
- PBI Solanum Project. Solanaceae source: a global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family (on-line resource).
- Randall, R. P. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status. 2007
- Rott, M. et al. 2011. Nightshade hosts for Canadian isolates of Globodera rostochiensis pathotype Ro1. Canad. J. Pl. Pathol. 33:410-415.
- Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74. 1996, 1999
Common names
English
Argentine nightshade – green nightshade – hairy nightshade – German
argentinischer Nachtschatten – glanzfrüchtiger Nachtschatten –
Distribution
| order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Buenos Aires | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Chubut | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Entre Rios | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Mendoza | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Neuquen | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Rio Negro | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Salta | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | San Juan | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | San Luis | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Santa Cruz | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Chile | | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Bolivia | | |
| 4 | Naturalized | Australasia | Australia | Australia | | |
| 4 | Naturalized | Australasia | New Zealand | New Zealand | | |
| 4 | Naturalized | Europe | | Europe | | |
| 4 | Naturalized | Northern America | | Canada | | |
| 4 | Naturalized | Northern America | | United States | | |
Native
Southern America
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina [Buenos Aires, Chubut, Entre Rios, Mendoza, Neuquen, Rio Negro, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz], Chile
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia
Naturalized
Australasia
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AUSTRALIA:
Australia
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NEW ZEALAND:
New Zealand
Europe
Northern America
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REGION:
Canada, United States
Economic Uses
| Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
| Weed | potential seed contaminant | | Edmonds, J. M. & J. A. Chweya. 1997. Black nightshades. Solanum nigrum L. and related species. Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. 1996- 15:32. |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=416959.
Accessed 16 December 2025.