Hyoscyamus niger

Hyoscyamus niger
Hyoscyamus niger in Köhler's Medicinal Plants, 1887
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Hyoscyamus
Species:
H. niger
Binomial name
Hyoscyamus niger

Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger, also black henbane and stinking nightshade) is a poisonous plant belonging to tribe Hyoscyameae of the nightshade family Solanaceae.[1][2] Henbane is native to temperate Europe and Siberia, and naturalised in Great Britain and Ireland.[3]

  1. ^ Kennedy, David O. (2014). "The Deliriants - The Nightshade (Solanaceae) Family". Plants and the Human Brain. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 131–137. ISBN 9780199914012. LCCN 2013031617.
  2. ^ Roberts & Wink 1998, p. 31
  3. ^ "Hyoscyamus niger | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora". Archived from the original on 2021-02-03. Retrieved 2020-11-25.

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