Heliotropium hirsutissimum
Heliotropium hirsutissimum
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Annual, covered throughout with ± patent hairs, especially on calyx. Stem divaricately branched. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, rarely subacute, usually 15-30 cm, rarely longer, distinctly petiolate. Cymes many-flowered, very dense at first, becoming laxer and elongated later. Calyx sessile, 3·5 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate, acute, ± erecto-patent in fruit. Corolla 5 mm, limb distinct, rotate, 5-6 mm diam. Stigma squat; cushion-shaped, style c. 0·5 mm. Nutlets glabrous, densely tuberculate. Fl. 5-10. Fields and field margins, waste ground, gravel banks, s.l-2200 m.
Bulgaria, Greece, Aegean, N. Africa, Syria, Palestine. E. Medit. element.
