Heliotropium curassavicum L.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Boraginaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Heliotropium curassavicum L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Annual, fleshy, more or less glaucous, diffuse, the branches 1.5-4.5 dm. long. Leaves linear, or linear-oblong, entire, inconspicuously veined, 2-5 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, obtuse, narrowed into petioles, or the upper sessile; scorpioid spikes dense, bractless, mostly in pairs; flowers about 4 mm. broad; calyx-segments acute; corolla white with a yellow eye or changing to blue; stigma umbrella-shaped; anthers acuminate; fruit globose.

  • Discussion

    Salinas, sea-beaches, margins of salt-ponds, Gun Cay, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Little San Salvador, Cat Island, Watling's, Great Exuma, Long Island, Fortune Island, Acklin"s, Grand Turk, Inagua, and Cay Sal : Bermuda ; Florida to Texas : coasts of the West Indies and continental tropical America. Seaside Heliotrope. Pond-weed.

  • Distribution

    Gun Cay, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Little San Salvador, Cat Island, Watling's, Great Exuma, Long Island, Fortune Island, Acklin"s, Grand Turk, Inagua, and Cay Sal : Bermuda ; Florida to Texas : coasts of the West Indies.

    Andros Island Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| San Salvador El Salvador Central America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| Long Island Bahamas South America| Acklins Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| Florida United States of America North America| Texas United States of America North America| West Indies|