• Habitat: Fields and open areas
• Native/Non-native: Native to northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, but has spread throughout the world. It is non-native to eastern North America where is very common.
• Bittersweet Nightshade is also called climbing nightshade as it is a vine.
• Latin dulcamara translates to “sweet-bitter” from the Latin words dulce (sweet) and amarus (bitter).