| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solanaceae | Nicotiana ×sanderae | Cultivated, rarely persistent or weakly spreading. | |||
| Solanaceae | Nicotiana alata | Jasmine Tobacco | Cultivated in gardens, rarely persistent. | Native of South America. See Jones & Coile (1988) for alleged GA occurrence. |  |
| Solanaceae | Nicotiana glauca | Tree Tobacco, Mustard Tree, Rape, Buena Moza, Gigante, Tabaco Moro | Along streams, roadsides, disturbed areas (TX); eastwards only as a waif or persistent or spreading from use in horticulture. | Native of South America (Argentina and Bolivia). Apparently present at Fort Pulaski National Monument, Chatham County, GA (Jones & Coile 1988; W. Duncan pers.comm. 2004). |  |
| Solanaceae | Nicotiana longiflora | Long-flower Tobacco | Disturbed areas. Cultivated and may be found as a waif or persistent. | Native of South America. |  |
| Solanaceae | Nicotiana obtusifolia | Desert Tobacco, Tabaquillo | Dry rocky or sandy slopes; eastwards as a ballast waif. | C. OK, NM, sw. UT, CA south through c., s., and w. TX, NM,and AZ to Mexico. | |
| Solanaceae | Nicotiana plumbaginifolia | Tex-Mex Tobacco | Disturbed uplands, especially over limestone. | Native of s. TX, Mexico southwards, and West Indies. |  |
| Solanaceae | Nicotiana repanda | Fiddleleaf Tobacco | Disturbed areas, moist areas along streams. | Native to TX, Mexico (CHH, COA, GTO, QRO, NLE, SLP, TAM, VER), and West Indies. |  |
| Solanaceae | Nicotiana rustica | Indian Tobacco, Wild Tobacco, Aztec Tobacco | Formerly commonly cultivated by native Americans in all parts of our area, persistent following cultivation, now apparently extinct in our area. | Originally native of Bolivia and Peru. This was the tobacco cultivated by American Indians at the time of contact by Europeans, and was the first tobacco taken to Europe and cultivated there. |  |
| Solanaceae | Nicotiana tabacum | Cultivated Tobacco | Persistent after cultivation; commonly cultivated, rarely naturalized. | Native of tropical America. This is the tobacco currently cultivated in our area for the manufacture of cigarettes, cigars, and other smoking and chewing tobacco products. It replaced Nicotiana rustica as the main cultivated tobacco in the mid-Atlantic colonies in the early 1600s. |  |
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