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Atropa bella-donna L.

Solanaceae · Great Britain, Austria +29

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Summary

Atropa bella-donna, commonly known as deadly nightshade or belladonna, is a toxic perennial herbaceous plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, which also includes tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant. It is native to Europe and Western Asia, including Turkey, its distribution extending from England in the west to western Ukraine and the Iranian province of Gilan in the east. It is also naturalised or introduced in some parts of Canada, North Africa and the United States.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Atropa bella-donna", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3802530 (Atropa lethalis Salisb., 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeGreat Britain, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Sicilia, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia, Krym, Ukraine, Algeria, Morocco, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Iran, Lebanon-Syria, Turkey · introduced: Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Baltic States, China Southeast, South Australia, New Zealand South, Washington, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, New Jersey, California · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3802530 (Atropa lethalis Salisb.): Kew's file holds it as Atropa lethalis Salisb. (illegitimate under Atropa bella-donna L.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: Danny Steven S., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; GT1976, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Atropa 2 in the reference

Atropa acuminata Indian belladonna Atropa baetica Andalusian Belladonna

Names & registers

Also known as Boberella bella-donna; Atropa bella-donna subsp. caucasica; Atropa borealis; Atropa cordata; Atropa digitaloides and 9 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Solanaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Great Britain, Austria, Belgium +28
Wild records
none in range

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Atropa bella-donna L. (plant_name_id 2665943), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 3802530, Atropa lethalis Salisb. (Kew's file holds it as Atropa lethalis Salisb. (illegitimate under Atropa bella-donna L.)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 814358-1, POWO 814358-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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