Nicotiana obtusifoliaM.Martens & Galeotti

desert tobacco

WFO wfo-0001023873 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Nicotiana obtusifolia, photographed by Dominic Gentilcore
fig. a Dominic Gentilcore, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-19 / obs. 199477354
Nicotiana obtusifolia, photographed by Andrew Meeds
fig. b Andrew Meeds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192275512
Nicotiana obtusifolia, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. c Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187442738
Nicotiana obtusifolia, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. d Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187405796
Nicotiana obtusifolia, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. e Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187417808
Nicotiana obtusifolia, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. f Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187406192
Nicotiana obtusifolia, photographed by Diana
fig. g Diana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185766516
Nicotiana obtusifolia, photographed by Mike Dechter
fig. h Mike Dechter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187210246

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Flowering n = 2,510 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 2,510 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Nicotiana glandulosa Buckley
  • Nicotiana multiflora Torr.
  • Nicotiana obtusifolia var. obtusifolia
  • Nicotiana obtusifolia var. palmeri (A.Gray) Kartesz
  • Nicotiana palmeri A.Gray
  • Nicotiana trigonophylla Dunal
  • Nicotiana trigonophylla var. ipomopsiflora (Dunal ex DC.) Comes
  • Nicotiana trigonophylla var. palmeri (A.Gray) M.E.Jones
  • Nicotiana trigonophylla var. pulla Comes
  • Nicotiana trigonophylla var. trigonophylla

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.