''Solanum villosum'', the hairy nightshade, red nightshade or woolly nightshade, is a sprawling annual weed in

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...

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, northern

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, North America, and is also naturalized in Australia.

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 An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

. The corolla is white. Followed by dull light red or orange-yellow (depending on subspecies) 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