Nicotiana attenuata

Coyote tobacco

Family: Solanaceae · Type: annual · Native

Coyote tobacco is a California native annual found in interior regions, including the central and eastern parts of the state, on open, well-drained slopes at elevations of 200 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from May to October, this plant produces white flowers with a salverform corolla 20 to 35 millimeters long, forming a delicate white-petaled bloom with widely triangular lobes. Growing 50 to 150 centimeters tall with glandular-hairy stems that may become somewhat glabrous with age, it develops an upright and branching form. Its leaves vary distinctively, with basal leaves elliptic to ovate, lower stem leaves lance-shaped and petioled, and upper stem leaves progressively narrower and sessile. The fruit is a small capsule 8 to 12 millimeters long, containing tiny seeds less than one millimeter in size.

Habitat: Open, well-drained slopes

Bloom period: May-Oct

Elevation: 200-3000 m

Bioregions: CA (exc coast)

California counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Kern, Mono, San Diego, Siskiyou, Inyo, Merced, Ventura, Tulare, Fresno, Modoc, Madera, Tuolumne, Orange, Alpine, Shasta, Santa Barbara, Lassen, Plumas, El Dorado, Mariposa, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, San Luis Obispo, Humboldt, Amador, Sacramento, Sonoma, Trinity, San Benito

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