SEASIDE HELIOTROPE
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Heliotropium curassavicum L.
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| Sumner County, Kansas |
| Annual, reportedly sometimes perennial |
| Height: 4-16 inches |
| Family: Boraginaceae - Borage Family |
| Flowering Period: June, July, August, September,October |
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| Stems: | | Erect to decumbent, branched. Plants glabrous, glaucous. | | Leaves: | | Cauline, alternate, simple, succulent; blade spatulate or oblanceolate to elliptic or linear-obovate to linear, .4 to 1.6 inch long, .08 to .7 inch wide, tip rounded to acute. | | Inflorescences: | | Terminal and axillary, scorpioid cymes. | | Flowers: | | Sepals connate basally, calyx .1 to .2 inch, lobes narrowly lanceolate; corolla white, funnelform, 5-lobed, limb .08 to .35 inch wide, lobes spreading, tip acute to rounded; stamens 5, included. | | Fruits: | | Schizocarps; nutlets 4, ca. .1 inch, glabrous. | | Habitat: | | Saline soils, salt marshes, shores of reservoirs. | | Distribution: | | Principally southwest quarter of Kansas | | Origin: | | Two varieties are known from Kansas. Variety obovatum DC. is considered native in the state whereas var. currassavicum is considered introduced. | | Uses: | | The Paiute and Shoshoni took a decoction of root as an emetic and as a gargle for sore throats. | | Comments: | | Heliotropium - sun and turn, alluding to the belief that flowering plants turned toward the sun. |
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| | Seaside heliotrope inflorescence |  | | 79 KB | | Sumner County, Kansas |
| | Seaside heliotrope flowers |  | | 49 KB | | Sumner County, Kansas |
| | Seaside heliotrope leaves |  | | 114 KB | | Sumner County, Kansas |
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