• Common Name: Tobacco
  • Botanical Name: Nicotiana tabacum
  • Family name: Nightshade family
  • Type: annual
  • Zone Hardiness: 8a-11b
  • Height: 3ft to 6ft
  • Width: 1ft to 2ft
  • Blooms: tubular, often fragrant flowers that can be white, cream, pink, or red
  • Bloom time: July to September
    Sun: full sun to partial shade
  • Leaves: large, simple leaves that are oval or ovate in shape
  • Maintenance: high, for serious gardeners. May require a license or permit to grow, need constant moisture and fertilizer. Sensitive to extreme cold and heat.
  • Tolerates: the sun
    Attracts: moths, butterflies.
  • Texas Superstar: no
  • Texas Native: no
  • Invasive: not to Texas, but other parts of the country that have tolerable temperatures for it