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Heliotropium curassavicum
Also called Seaside Heliotrope, Seaside Lavender, Alkali Heliotrope, Seashore Heliotrope, Smooth Heliotrope, Seaside String Of Stars, Quail Plant
Salt heliotrope is a fleshy, low-growing herb or small shrub that spreads along the ground or grows upright to about 0.5 m, with white bell-shaped flowers. It thrives in salty, sandy or alkali soils and needs full sun and well-drained conditions.
Heliotropium curassavicum, commonly called salt heliotrope, is a species of flowering plant in the family Heliotropiaceae. It is native to the Americas and Northern Australia and has been introduced elsewhere.
The species is native to Northern Australia including the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland, and to much of the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the West Indies and Hawaii. It can be found as an introduced species (in some cases being invasive) in Africa, Eurasia, and southern Australia.
Clasping heliotrope · Garden heliotrope · Heliotropium arboreum · Heliotropium ellipticum · European heliotrope · Heliotrope
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Heliotropium curassavicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
