Nicotiana acuminata var. multiflora

Manyflower tobacco

Family: Solanaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Manyflower tobacco is a naturalized annual herb found in California's Foothill Piedmont and North Coast Ranges in open, sandy or gravelly areas at elevations below 1,600 meters. Flowering from May to October, this plant produces white to greenish-purple flowers in large, showy corollas 25 to 100 millimeters long with widely rounded lobes. Growing 50 to 150 centimeters tall with densely glandular-hairy stems, it has a distinctive branching habit. Its leaves vary from ovate basal leaves to narrower, reduced cauline leaves along the stem, with blades ranging from 5 to 25 centimeters long. The fruit is a small capsule 10 to 12 millimeters in length, containing tiny seeds less than a millimeter long.

Habitat: Open, sandy or gravelly areas

Bloom period: May-Oct

Elevation: < 1600 m

Bioregions: CA-FP, MP

California counties: Ventura, San Bernardino, Tulare, Colusa, Riverside, Los Angeles, El Dorado, Calaveras, San Joaquin, Amador, Sonoma, Marin, Modoc, Contra Costa, Napa, Butte, Sacramento, Sutter, Sierra, Plumas, Alameda, Lassen, San Luis Obispo, Madera, Shasta, Stanislaus, Merced, Tuolumne, Santa Clara, Placer, Santa Cruz, San Benito, Siskiyou, Mendocino, San Mateo, San Diego, Lake, Mariposa, Yolo, Inyo

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.