OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Heliotropium amplexicaule   FAMILY Heliotropiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heliotropium amplexicaule   FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Heliotropium amplexicaule

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-01-004:

Heliotropium amplexicaule   FAMILY Boraginaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Cochranea anchusaefolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Clasping Heliotrope, Violet Heliotrope


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image of Heliotropium amplexicaule, Clasping Heliotrope, Violet Heliotrope

JK Marlow    jkm080517_135

May    Aiken County    SC

Savannah River Bluffs Heritage Preserve

Flowers in a branched series of 3-4 helicoid false racemes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Heliotropium amplexicaule, Clasping Heliotrope, Violet Heliotrope

JK Marlow    jkm080517_135b

May    Aiken County    SC

Savannah River Bluffs Heritage Preserve

image of Heliotropium amplexicaule, Clasping Heliotrope, Violet Heliotrope

JK Marlow    jkm080517_136

May    Aiken County    SC

Savannah River Bluffs Heritage Preserve

Flowers in secund [one-sided] helicoid [coiled] cymes, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Heliotropium amplexicaule, Clasping Heliotrope, Violet Heliotrope

JK Marlow    jkm080517_136b

May    Aiken County    SC

Savannah River Bluffs Heritage Preserve

image of Heliotropium amplexicaule, Clasping Heliotrope, Violet Heliotrope

JK Marlow    jkm080517_138

May    Aiken County    SC

Savannah River Bluffs Heritage Preserve

False racemes elongate at maturity. Stems several, ascending or decumbent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Heliotropium amplexicaule, Clasping Heliotrope, Violet Heliotrope

JK Marlow    jkm080517_147

May    Aiken County    SC

Savannah River Bluffs Heritage Preserve

Stem leaves sessile/sub-sessile, oblong-oblanceolate, sordid, tawny-villous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Heliotropium amplexicaule   FAMILY Heliotropiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heliotropium amplexicaule   FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Heliotropium amplexicaule

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-01-004:
Heliotropium amplexicaule   FAMILY Boraginaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cochranea anchusaefolia

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

657

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Disturbed areas, roadsides, fields, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: South America

Uncommon (rare in NC Piedmont)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Bluish/ Purplish
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed salverform or funnelform corolla
5 stamens, fused to corolla tube
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)

 

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