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• n  perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine
• n  poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America

• belladonna
• belladonna plant
• Atropa belladonna
• bittersweet
• bittersweet nightshade
• climbing nightshade
• poisonous nightshade
• woody nightshade
• Solanum dulcamara

News & Articles

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• Low-cost ways to turn your home into a haunted manor
  Designer Brian Patrick Flynn created this inexpensive but spooky display by soaking the labels off empty bottles and spray-painting them black. He used scrapbook labels to add new names ("Eye of Newt," "Deadly Nightshade"), and then clustered the bottles on a sideboard.
  Oct. 14, 2013 - Everett Herald