SLENDER HELIOTROPE
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Heliotropium tenellum (Nutt. ) Torr.
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| Woodson County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: Up to 16 inches |
| Family: Boraginaceae - Borage Family |
| Flowering Period: June, July, August |
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| Also Called: | | Pasture heliotrope. | | Stems: | | Erect, slender, much branched, stiff-hairy. | | Leaves: | | Mostly opposite, sessile, linear, .4 to 1.2 inches long, less than 1/8 inch wide; surface whitish stiff-hairy; margins often rolled under; tips tapering to points. | | Inflorescences: | | Solitary flowers at branch tips and in upper leaf axils. | | Flowers: | | Sepals 5, unequal, free, densely stiff-hairy; corolla regular, funnel-shaped, white with yellowish eye; tube stiff-hairy, not exceeding shortest sepals; expanded upper portion of tube 5-lobed, 1/8 to 1/5 inch wide; lobes nearly equal, tips rounded, outer face minutely-hairy; stamens 5, not protruding from corolla. | | Fruits: | | Nutlets, 4, smooth, minutely-pubescent, much shorter than persistant sepals. | | Habitat: | | Open sites, open woodlands, and limestone outcrops; dry, frequently limey soils. | | Distribution: | | Southeast 1/4 of Kansas. |
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