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§1 Plant

Solanum dulcamara L.

vernacular climbing nightshade — species · Solanaceae


USDA
SODU
GBIF
2932737
Rank
species
climbing nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)
Platephotograph · Alexander BaranskyCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub, Vine
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Solanaceae Juss.
Genus
Solanum
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 624 counties across 31 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 624 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 624 counties across 31 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 1 I
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 39 I
Indiana view state ↗ 43 I
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I
Kansas view state ↗ 2 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 12 I
Maine view state ↗ 14 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I
Michigan view state ↗ 72 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 23 I
Missouri view state ↗ 8 I
Montana view state ↗ 34 I
Nebraska view state ↗ 5 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 I
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 I
New York view state ↗ 50 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 I
North Dakota view state ↗ 2 I
Ohio view state ↗ 71 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 64 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 I
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 I
Vermont view state ↗ 13 I
Virginia view state ↗ 39 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 21 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 50 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/SODU ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2932737 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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