1624 Solanum dulcamara L.

This polymorphic species is widely distributed in Eurasia and now N. America. The relation between the distribution patterns of S. dulcamara s. str. (var. dulcamara) and var. persicum Kuntze is complicated. In E. Asia two taxa, var. chinense Dunal and S. megacarpum Koidz. are distinguished. The species s. str. has been introduced into N. America. The species s. lat. has nowadays an almost circumpolar distribution (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 402f. and map 298). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1978, map p. 387.