Nicotiana sylvestris

Erect viscid annual herb to 2.5 m high; branches with dense glandular hairs. Leaves initially in a basal rosette but these usually withered at maturity and then most leaves cauline, sessile, ovate to obovate, 20–40 cm long, 8–18 cm wide, clammy, with abundant gland-tipped hairs, bases amplexicaul. Inflorescences terminal, racemose or a few-branched panicle. Flowers usually pendent; pedicels to c. 10 mm long, densely glandular; calyx c. 10–15 mm long, glandular-hairy, the lobes 2–5 mm long; corolla white, tube 50–80 mm long or more, glandular-pubescent, limb 20–30 mm diam., lobes acute. Capsule ovoid, c. 12 mm long; seeds obovoid-obcuneoid, c. 0.6 mm long, brown, tuberculate in lines. Flowers Mar (1 record).