Heliotropium

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Boraginaceae

• Scientific Name

  Heliotropium

• Description

  Description - Herbs or shrubs, with alternate mostly entire leaves, and small blue or white flowers, in scorpioid spikes, or scattered. Calyx-lobes or segments lanceolate, ovate, or linear. Corolla salverform or funel form, naked in the throat, its tube cylindie, its lobes imbricated, plicate or induplicate in the bud. Stamens included; filaments short, or none. Stigma conic or annular. Fruit 2-4-lobed, separating into 4, 1-seeded nutlets, or into 2, 2-seeded carpels. [Greek, sunturning, i. e., turning to or with the sun.] About 125 species, widely distributed. Type species: Heliotropium europaeum L.