Determined according to the botanical keys provided by Hawkes & Edmonds in Tutin et al. (1972) and Stjepanović-Veseličić in Josifović (1974).
Distribution: Native from Temperate Eurasia to India and Mainland Southeast Asia, Macaronesia, North and Northeast Africa to Chad according to the distribution information provided by the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).
Habitat: Disturbed ground, wastelands, roadsides, gardens, urban and suburban areas, orchards and cultivated land and other ruderal areas.
Lifeform: Annual; therophyte according to the Raunkiær system.
Flowering period: Spring – fall: MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT.
Solanum nigrumsubsp. nigrum – habit. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Solanum nigrumsubsp. nigrum – stem with flowers and fruits. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Solanum nigrumsubsp. nigrum – stem with fruits. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Solanum nigrumsubsp. nigrum – flowers. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Solanum nigrumsubsp. nigrum – flowers. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Solanum nigrumsubsp. nigrum – flowers. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Solanum nigrumsubsp. nigrum – fruits. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Solanum nigrumsubsp. nigrum – fruits. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Solanum nigrumsubsp. nigrum – fruits. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Solanum nigrumsubsp. nigrum – leaves. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Solanum nigrumsubsp. nigrum – adaxial side of leaf. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.Solanum nigrum subsp. nigrum – abaxial side ofleaf. Osogovo, village of Shtalkovica, 29.10.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
References:
Rod Solanum L. Stjepanović-Veseličić, L. in Josifović, M. (1974). Flora SR Srbije VI. Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti, Beograd, pp. 85-94.
Solanum L. Hawkes, J.G. & Edmonds, J.M. in Tutin, T.G., Heywood, V.H., Burges, N.A., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H., Walters, S.M. & Webb, D.A. (1972). Flora Europaea. Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 197 – 199.
Osogovo nature 