Name: Solanum nigrum Linn.
- Common name: black nightshade, blackberry nightshade, or garden nightshade
- Vernacular name: Kochi (|Assamese) and Leipungkhanga (Manipuri)
- Family: Solanaceae
- Habits: variable ephemeral, annual or sometimes biennial herb
- Habitats: A common weed of crops, pastures, orchards, vineyards, roadsides, gardens, disturbed sites and waste areas in temperate, sub-tropical, tropical and semi-arid environments.
- Flower: July–October
- Fruit: summer and autumn.
- Part used : Whole plant
- Distribution: Assam, Karnataka and the north-eastern state
- Uses: Treating diarrhoea, antioxidant, high blood pressure, stomach ache and asthma