| Scientific Name: | Solanum dulcamara |
| Common Name: | deadly nightshade, European bittersweet |
| Family Name: | Solanaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Vine - deciduous, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Deltoid, Ovate, Pinnately lobed, Sinuate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Yellow, Blue, Violet, Mar-Apr-May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Red, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Climbing weed; leaves alternate, ternate, leaflets ovate-deltoid, most blades 5-10cm long x 4-9cm wide, base hastate, smell like peanut butter when crushed; cyme of 3-20 drooping flowers 1-1.5cm wide, 5 fused purple (rarely white or blue) petals that curl back at tips, stamens yellow; berries ovate, 7-9mm long x 6-7mm wide, in pendulous clusters, bright red when ripe. | |