Common Name

Native Tobacco

Family

Solanaceae

Notes

Annual forb to 1.2m tall.  Leaves mostly basal, some scattered up the stems, usually slightly stem-clasping.  Leaves to 23cm long, to 120mm wide, flat, sticky hairy.  Flowers white, tubular, with 5 usually notched lobes, in 'panicles' at the tops of stalks arising from the base of the plant.  Flowers that self-pollinate without opening occasionally present.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 583-584.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Nicotiana~simulans

Online fact sheet with photos published by the South Australian Herbarium:  http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/efsa/lucid/Solanaceae/Nicotiana%20species/key/Australian%20Nicotiana%20species/Media/Html/Nicotiana_simulans.htm