Search for native plants by scientific name, common name or family. Rabbit Tobacco AKA Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium (yeah, that's why I call it Rabbit Tobacco) is a most peculiar plant that I was first introduced to last year. Fortunately, since that time I have managed to locate rabbit tobacco within an hour of my house. However, G. Americanum became the technical name most commonly used by early writers on the American everlastings such as John Gerard (1597) of London, John Clayton (1687) of Virginia, and William Salmon (1710) of South Carolina and London.