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Heliotropium europaeum - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Monchique, Algarve, Portugal; 8/2007 © Jörn Germer

Heliotropium europaeum - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Monchique, Algarve, Portugal; 8/2007 © Jörn Germer

Heliotropium europaeum - Upper and lower side of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower side of leaf; Monchique, Algarve, Portugal; 8/2007 © Jörn Germer

Heliotropium europaeum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Monchique, Algarve, Portugal; 8/2007 © Jörn Germer

Heliotropium europaeum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Pico Island, Azores, Portugal; 8/2016 © Jörn Germer

Heliotropium europaeum - Inflorescence, close-up - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence, close-up; Pico Island, Azores, Portugal; 8/2016 © Jörn Germer

Heliotropium europaeum - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Pico Island, Azores, Portugal; 8/2016 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 635
Date of entry: 20.08.2007
Last update: 15.04.2023

Common name

English: European heliotrope

German: Euroäische Sonnenwende

Mandarin: 天芥菜 (tian jie cai)

Portuguese: Erva-das-verrugas, Tornassol-com-pêlos

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Lamiales (199)

        Family: Boraginaceae (38)(family description)

          Genus: Heliotropium (3)

            Epithet: europaeum L. (2)

europaeum => from Europe

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: xerophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: green, yellow, white

External links

Check for Heliotropium europaeum at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [17] Rothmaler, W. (1995): Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 3, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.
  • [11] Schönfelder, I. and Schönfelder, P. (1999): Die Kosmos-Mittelmeerflora. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart, Germany.

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