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Heliotropium
Family: Boraginaceae
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Cor salverform or funnelform, often with 5 small teeth alternating with the lobes; fornices wanting; anthers included, often connivent; ovary entire or merely shallowly lobed, the style terminal (or wanting and the stigma sessile); stigma with a broad, disk-like base commonly surmounted by a mostly short, entire or 2-cleft cone; fr separating at maturity into 4 nutlets, or the nutlets cohering in pairs; herbs (ours) or shrubs with blue or white fls mostly in terminal helicoid cymes, or sometimes solitary on the branches. 200+, mainly of warm regions.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Heliotropium amplexicaule
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Heliotropium angiospermum
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Heliotropium confertifolium
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Heliotropium convolvulaceum
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Heliotropium curassavicum
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Heliotropium europaeum
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Heliotropium fruticosum
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Heliotropium glabriusculum
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Heliotropium greggii
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Heliotropium indicum
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Heliotropium molle
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Heliotropium polyphyllum
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Heliotropium procumbens
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Heliotropium racemosum
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Heliotropium tenellum
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Heliotropium texanum
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Heliotropium torreyi
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