Common Name: NIGHTSHADE FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub. Leaf: generally simple, generally alternate, generally petioled; stipules 0; blade entire to deeply lobed. Inflorescence: various. Flower: bisexual; calyx lobes generally 5; corolla +- radial, cylindric to rotate, lobes generally 5; stamens 5, on corolla tube, alternate lobes; ovary superior, generally 2-chambered, style 1. Fruit: berry, loculicidal or septicidal capsule, [(drupe)], 2--5-chambered. Genera In Family: 75 genera, 3000 species: worldwide, especially +- tropics; many alien weeds in California; many cultivated for food, drugs, or ornamental (potato, tomato, peppers, tobacco, petunia). Toxicity: many TOXIC. Note:Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn. is a waif. eFlora Treatment Author: Michael H. Nee Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: TOBACCO 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. Etymology: (J. Nicot, said to have introduced tobacco to Eur, 1530--1600) Toxicity: Seriously TOXIC to livestock. Unabridged Reference: Goodspeed 1954 Chron Bot 16:1--536
Nicotiana attenuata Torr. ex S. Watson.
NATIVE Habit: Annual 5--15 dm, +- glandular-hairy. Leaf: 3--10 cm, petioled; basal elliptic to ovate; cauline reduced. Inflorescence: bracts < 30 mm, linear. Flower: calyx 6--10 mm, lobes < tube, +- equal, triangular, acute, pock-marked; corolla +- salverform, tube 20--27 mm, +- green, pink-tinged, limb 4--8 mm wide, white; stamens unequal, attached below tube middle. Fruit: 8--12 mm. Ecology: Open, well-drained slopes; Elevation: 200--3000 m. Bioregional Distribution: CA (exc coast); Distribution Outside California: to British Columbia, Montana, New Mexico, northwestern Mexico. Flowering Time: May--Oct Jepson eFlora Author: Michael H. Nee Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Nicotiana acuminata var. multiflora Next taxon: Nicotiana clevelandii
Botanical illustration including Nicotiana attenuata
Citation for this treatment: Michael H. Nee 2012, Nicotiana attenuata, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=34644, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 16, 2024.
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