Solanum villosum, the hairy nightshade,[1] red nightshade[2] or woolly nightshade, is a sprawling annual weed in Europe, western Asia, northern Africa and is also naturalized in Australia and North America (PoWo Map).

An annual herb, to 70 cm, slightly to densely hairy.

Followed by dull light red or orange-yellow (depending on subspecies) globular berries, 5–9 mm diam.

The seeds are 1.7–2.3 mm long and pale yellow.

miniatum), but in North America the same should be taken as stands, S. alatum Moench (PoWo) with synonym Solanum emulans Raf.