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§1 Plant
Solanum americanum Mill.
vernacular American black nightshade — species · Solanaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Solanaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Solanum
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- NAV Navassa Island Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
County-level range
· 191 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 191 counties across 13 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 58 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Glades 12043
- Hamilton 12047
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Bibb 13021
- Cherokee 13057
- Clarke 13059
- Columbia 13073
- Dawson 13085
- Elbert 13105
- Fulton 13121
- Glynn 13127
- Grady 13131
- Harris 13145
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jefferson 13163
- Lanier 13173
- Lincoln 13181
- Lowndes 13185
- Macon 13193
- Madison 13195
- McIntosh 13191
- Morgan 13211
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Spalding 13255
- Tift 13277
- Wilkes 13317
Kansas view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Attala 28007
- Forrest 28035
- Grenada 28043
- Hancock 28045
- Hinds 28049
- Jefferson 28063
- Jones 28067
- Lafayette 28071
- Lamar 28073
- Lauderdale 28075
- Leake 28079
- Lee 28081
- Madison 28089
- Marshall 28093
- Monroe 28095
- Noxubee 28103
- Perry 28111
- Scott 28123
- Smith 28129
- Tishomingo 28141
- Tunica 28143
- Washington 28151
- Wayne 28153
- Wilkinson 28157
- Yazoo 28163
Missouri view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Andrew 29003
- Barry 29009
- Barton 29011
- Bates 29013
- Benton 29015
- Buchanan 29021
- Caldwell 29025
- Carroll 29033
- Cass 29037
- Christian 29043
- Clay 29047
- Douglas 29067
- Gentry 29075
- Greene 29077
- Hickory 29085
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Johnson 29101
- Laclede 29105
- Lawrence 29109
- Livingston 29117
- McDonald 29119
- Newton 29145
- Nodaway 29147
- Platte 29165
- Polk 29167
- Ray 29177
- Saline 29195
- St. Clair 29185
- Stone 29209
- Taney 29213
- Vernon 29217
- Webster 29225
- Worth 29227
New Mexico view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SOAM ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2930222 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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