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Coyote Tobacco
Nicotiana attenuata
  
1 Nurseries Carry This Plant

About Coyote Tobacco (Nicotiana attenuata) 1 Nurseries Carry This Plant Nicotiana attenuata is a species of wild tobacco known by the common name coyote tobacco. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Texas and northern Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitat. It is a hairy and sparsely hairy annual herb exceeding a meter in maximum height. The leaf blades may be 10 centimeters long, the lower ones oval and the upper narrower in shape, and are borne on petioles. The flower cluster bears several flowers with pinkish or greenish white tubular throats 2 to 3 centimeters long, their bases enclosed in pointed sepals. The flower face has five mostly white lobes. The fruit is a capsule about a centimeter long. This plant was used for a great variety of medicinal purposes by many Native American groups, and was smoked ceremonially by the Hopi, Apache, Navajo, Paiute, and other groups.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Size
Size
3.3 - 5 ft tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
Pink, White

Wildlife Supported
 


 
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 27 likely * ) SHOW ALL
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Hyles lineata Image
White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineataHyles lineata
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Manduca sexta Image
Carolina Sphinx Manduca sextaManduca sexta
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Spilosoma vestalis Image
Wandering Tiger Moth Spilosoma vestalisSpilosoma vestalis
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Agrotis venerabilis Image
Venerable Dart Agrotis venerabilisAgrotis venerabilis
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Feltia subterranea Image
Subterranean Dart Feltia subterraneaFeltia subterranea
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Megalographa biloba Image
Bilobed Looper Moth Megalographa bilobaMegalographa biloba
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Agrotis ipsilon Image
Ipsilon Dart Agrotis ipsilonAgrotis ipsilon

Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun

Nurseries
Nurseries
Carried by 1

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Open, welldrained slopes

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 3.8" - 59.6", Summer Precipitation: 0.17" - 3.33", Coldest Month: 17.9" - 60.4", Hottest Month: 38.4" - 88.2", Humidity: 0.59" - 40.87", Elevation: 27" - 14460"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Coyote Tabacco


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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