Taxon: Atropa belladonna L.

Common names:

• belladonna   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• deadly-nightshade   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• belladone   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• morelle furieuse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Tollkirsche   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• beladama   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• belladona   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore; source of atropine   (fide Import Medicinal Pl; Bull Brit Mus 27:15. 1997; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Lampe & McCann; Everist; Der Marderosian)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Atropa belladonna from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran [n.]; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom - England
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Ukraine [w. & Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

References:

• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14) ["bella-donna"].
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). (ICBN St Louis) Art. 23.2, Ex. 1.
• Hoare, A. L. & S. Knapp. 1997. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. London, Bot. 27:26.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Atropa belladonna.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Atropa belladonna. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Atropa belladonna L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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