Heliotropium supinum, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 86

12. H. supinum L. , Sp. Pl. 130 (1753) .

Annual, branched at the base, the central branch erect, the lateral procumbent. Leaves up to 3-5 x 2 cm, narrowly elliptical to suborbicular, rounded or cuneate at the base, whitish-pubescent at least beneath, the veins conspicuously impressed above; petiole 0-3-1-5(-2) cm. Calyx 2-2-5 mm, lobed to less than J of its length, tubular, accrescent in fruit and becoming pyriform, closely enfolding the fruit and falling with it. Corolla 2-5-3 mm, the limb white. Style almost as long as stigma, inserted slightly obliquely on the ovary; stigma conical, hairy, often shallowly bifid. Fruit a single one-seeded nutlet. S. Europe, extending northwards to Hungary. Al BI Bu Co Cr Ga Gr Hs Hu It Ju Lu Rm Sa Si. S u b fam. B oraginoideae

Style gynobasic, without a glandular ring.