Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_nicotiana_tabacum
Tobacco
Nicotiana tabacum
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About Tobacco
A stout erect short-lived subshrub with sticky glandular hairs and large alternate leaves that become smaller up the stem. Leaves are smooth-edged or wavy and run down onto the stem. Dense terminal flower systems carry long tubular flowers with white-to-pink or reddish, five-lobed spreading limbs. Ovoid-to-ellipsoid capsules contain numerous tiny net-surfaced seeds. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Nicotiana tabacum
- Common names
- tobacco
- Hawaiian names
- paka
- Other names
- Nicotiana tabacum · tobacco · paka
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Choose one pink-flowered form; do not imply all flowers on a single plant vary among the described colors.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Erect, stout annual or short-lived perennial herb or subshrub, 1‒2 m tall; stems sparsely branched, viscid pubescent with abundant glandular hairs.
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- A stout erect short-lived subshrub with sticky glandular hairs and large alternate leaves that become smaller up the stem. Leaves are smooth-edged or wavy and run down onto the stem. Dense terminal flower systems carry long tubular flowers with white-to-pink or reddish, five-lobed spreading limbs. Ovoid-to-ellipsoid capsules contain numerous tiny net-surfaced seeds. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.