Solanum nigrum L. subsp. nigrum

Spice Flowers Fruit Fruits In the field

Family: SOLANACEAE

Genus: Solanum

Catalan common name: Herba mora. Morella negra. Morella vella. Pebre d'ase.

Spanish common name: Hierba mora. Tomatillo del diablo.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza. Formentera. Cabrera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Cosmopolitan and subcosmopolitan

Uses and properties: Medicinal. Psycotrophic plant.

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Cultivated fields, path and road sides.

Characteristics: An herbaceous plant that looks like a bush, as it has a thick trunk and is very well branched. Leaves are rhomboid with few teeth or slightly lobed. Flowers are white and united in a sort of an umbel; upon fructification, forms dangling, spherical berries that turn black when mature. Solanum luteum looks a lot like it, but it is much more hirsute, with mature fruits are red in colour. Flowers all the year but mainly during the spring and the summer.