Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, Gafann

Henbane
Hyoscyamus niger
Gafann
Family: Solanaceae

Flowering: June-September. Annual or biennial. Native.

Irregularly trumpet-shaped, creamy-yellow flowers with dark purple-brown veins. Basal rosette of coarsely toothed leaves that are usually lobed and the stem leaves are clasping. An erect, branched or unbranched, sticky-hairy plant with a foetid smell. Height 40-80cm. Very poisonous!

A vulnerable, decreasing species that was previously more widespread on dry, bare, calcareous ground. Now mainly coastal with a very scattered distribution on shingle beaches, sandy ground and waste land.


Henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, Gafann

Henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, Gafann
Henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, Gafann

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