Nicotiana glauca

Nicotiana glauca

Biggest Plant Dictionary | Nicotiana glauca | Tree tobacco is native to South America but it is now widespread as an introduced species on other continents.

It is a common roadside weed in the southwestern United States, and an invasive plant species in California native plant habitats. Nicotiana glauca is a shrub of up to 5 m high with glaucous leaves and tubular yellow flowers.

Habitat description

Nicotiana glauca is distributed in warm temperate, arid and subtropical, dry and moist regions, beside roadsides and along riverbanks, up to altitudes of 3000 m .

Nicotiana glauca

Classification
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae – Potato family
Genus: Nicotiana L. – tobacco
Species: Nicotiana glauca Graham – tree tobacco

Nicotiana glauca

Watering conditions:
Extremely dry areas with very rare rainfall. The dry season lasts 8 - 12 months and in some years it is possible to have no rainfall at all. Rainfall less than 100 mm/year. Dry, arid areas, with long drought periods of 6 - 10 months. Precipitations of 100 mm - 300 mm. are concentrated in winter. Somewhat dry areas where the drought may last 3 - 5 months. Precipitations of 400 - 800 mm. are concentrated in winter.

Nicotiana glauca