Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Nicotiana repanda
Nicotiana repanda Willd. ex Lehm.
Fiddleleaf Tobacco, Fiddle-leaf Tobacco
Solanaceae (Potato Family)
USDA Symbol: NIREUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Nicotinia repanda
Fiddleleaf Tobacco
Solonaceae
Location: 15 m S of Oakwell Farms Pky & 15 m E of Bitterblue Lane--Oakwell Farms.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Shaded mornings/full sun afternoons. Nominal moisture. Level, deep, alkaline, alluvial soil. Among Poaceae and Ulmaceae.
Description: Annual, erect single stalk, to 90 cm tall. Loosely branched in upper half. Leaves thin, ovovate, ovate & commonly repand, to 10 x 20 cm, upper ones deeply cordate-clasping. Corolla a long tube (to 6 cm) flaring to a 4 cm limb, white, sometimes rose. Opens evenings.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jul 11, 1987
Specimen number: 353
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0563
Accession Date: Nov 17, 1993
Accession Number: 43
Annotations: SCFXB