Hyoscyamus niger
| Hyoscyamus niger | |
|---|---|
| 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
|
| 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]
- ^ Kennedy, David O. (2014). "The Deliriants: The Nightshade (Solanaceae) Family". Plants and the Human Brain. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 131–7. ISBN 978-0-19-991401-2. LCCN 2013031617. OCLC 865508649.
- ^ Wink 1998, p. 31
- ^ Dines, T.D.; Smart, S.M.; Walker, K.J. Stroh, P.A.; Humphrey, T.A.; Burkmar, R.J.; Pescott, O.L.; Roy, D.B.; Walker, K.J. (eds.). "Henbane Hyoscyamus niger L." BSBI Online Plant Atlas 2020.