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