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  • COMMON NAME: European heliotrope, European turn-sole.
  • ARABIC: حشيشة العقرب، عقربه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Heliotropium europaeum L.
  • FAMILY: BORAGINACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotropium_europaeum https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:116833-1/images http://flora.provincia.modena.it/naviga_flora/unplaced-euasterid/heliotropium-europaeum.aspx
Annual, 20-50 cm high, greyish-green with unpleasant smell, appressed hairs. Stems divaricately branched. Leaves petiolate, elliptic, obtuse to subacute, up to 3.5 cm long, 1-2 cm wide. Inflorescences dense, with flowers mostly in 2-rows. Calyx 2-3 mm long, lobes lanceolate, spreading in fruit. Corolla 3-4 mm long, tube cylindrical, limb white, more or less rotate, hairy outside. Anthers inserted in middle of corolla-tube. Stigma linear-subulate, uaually glabrous, deeply or slightly bifid tip. Nutlets 4, tuberculate-rugose, glarous or pubescent. Flowering from October to April.
Cultivated places, alluvial plains and roadsides.
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