Habit: Annual to small tree.
Leaf: +- basal or not; margin entire, +- wavy or not.
Inflorescence: raceme or panicle, terminal; lower bracts leaf-like.
Flower: calyx 5-lobed, +- enlarging, not fully enclosing fruit; corolla generally radial, generally funnel-shaped to salverform; stamens 5, equal or 1 smaller.
Fruit: septicidal capsule.
Seed: many, minute, angled.
Species In Genus: +- 60 species: generally America;
Nicotiana tabacum L. widely cultivated, tobacco of commerce.
Etymology: (J. Nicot, said to have introduced tobacco to Eur, 1530--1600)
Toxicity: Seriously TOXIC to livestock.
Jepson eFlora Author: Michael H. Nee
Unabridged Reference: Goodspeed 1954 Chron Bot 16:1--536Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Nicotiana
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