Heliotropium europaeum L.

Erect annual herb ; up to 25 cm , with a stout ± woody base . Stems simple or with few branches . Leaves 25–60 × 18–30 mm , ovate to ovate-elliptic , base cuneate and tapering into the petiole , sometimes oblique , apex acute , margins entire , densely adpressed tomentose with bulbous-based hairs , dense on the nerves ; nerves depressed ; petiole 15–45 mm . Inflorescences of terminal and lateral scorpiod cymes , flowers dense , in fruiting time biseriate , up to 10 cm , often forked ; flowers compact above becoming lax below ; bracts absent . Flowers small (up to 5 mm long) , white with a yellow throat , trumpet-shaped ; calyx 5-lobed , persistent ; lobes free to base , 3–4 mm , oblong-lanceolate , acute , densely hairy ; corolla white , tubular , 5-lobed ; tube about half times longer than the calyx , hairy on the outside ; lobes small , ± 1 mm , oblong , rounded at apex , overlapping ; stamens attached just above the base of corolla tube ; stigma conical to linear (conical in most ... of Oman plants) . Fruit nutlets , 4 , ovoid , verrucose , covered with short or a few long hairs or ± glabrous . Seeds up to 2 mm long , brownish , wrinkled or warty and sometimes hairy . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .

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Not Evaluated (NE)

Not Common

Heliotropium album St.-Lag.
Heliotropium commutatum Schult.
Heliotropium dioscoridis Bubani
Heliotropium europaeum subsp. tenuiflorum (Guss.) Nyman
Heliotropium subcanescens Steven
Heliotropium vulgare Gaterau