Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Bahamas, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile North, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Colorado, Corse, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Easter Is., Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Free State, Galápagos, Georgia, Greece, Gulf States, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Juan Fernández Is., Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kriti, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Libya, Louisiana, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Mexico, New South Wales, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, NW. Balkan Pen., Ogasawara-shoto, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Pitcairn Is., Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Rodrigues, Réunion, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, Spain, Sudan-South Sudan, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Tibet, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turks-Caicos Is., Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uganda, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Victoria, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alberta, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Connecticut, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Jawa, Kansas, Kentucky, Krym, Laos, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, New Zealand North, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Territory, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Poland, Primorye, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Saskatchewan, Society Is., South Dakota, South European Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tasmania, Tennessee, Thailand, Ukraine, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Castroviejo, S. (ed.) in Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2012). Flora Iberica 11: 1-672. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
• Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1972). Flora Europaea 3: 1-370. Cambridge University Press.

Flora Zambesiaca

• A.M. Venter, Taxonomy of Lycium, Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Bloemfontein: 1–273 (2000).
• Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 88 (1754).
• Hunziker, Gen. Solanacearum: 158 (2001).
• Lycium L., Sp. Pl.: 191 (1753)
• Sp. Pl.: 191 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Africa, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Bloemfontein (2000);
• Collect. Bot. 7: 359–379 (1968);
• DC., Prodr. 13(1): 508 (1852);
• Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 88 (1754);
• Gen. Solanaceae: 158–164 (2001)
• Sp. Pl. 1: 191 (1753)

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