''Solanum villosum'', the hairy nightshade, red nightshade or woolly nightshade, is a sprawling annual weed in Europe, western Asia, northern Africa,

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, and is also naturalized in

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Description

An annual herb, to 70 cm, slightly to densely hairy. The leaf blade is ovate, up to 8 cm long, 3–6 cm wide, entire or shallowly lobed, and petioles to 4.5 cm long. Clusters of 3–8–flowers in the inflorescence. The

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is white. Followed by dull light red or orange-yellow (depending on

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) globular berries, 5–9 mm diam. The seeds are 1.7–2.3 mm long and pale yellow.Factsheet ''Solanum villosum'', Flora of South Australia
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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q761924 villosum Flora of Europe Flora of Africa Flora of temperate Asia Taxa named by Philip Miller