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Solanum villosum
Also called Red Nightshade, Red Fruit Nightshade, Woolly Nightshade
Hairy nightshade is a sprawling annual weed in the nightshade family, grown mostly as a weed rather than a garden plant. It thrives in open, disturbed ground and is easy to grow from seed.
Solanum villosum, also known as the hairy nightshade, red nightshade, or woolly nightshade, is a species of sprawling annual weed. It is found in Europe, western Asia, northern Africa and is also naturalized in Australia and North America (PoWo Map).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Solanum villosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
