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Heliotropium ellipticum is an annual herb from Eurasia and Central Asia, usually found as a weed of dry, open ground and as a contaminant in cumin and other spice crops. It is grown mainly for study rather than in gardens, and it is not a common cultivated plant.
Heliotropium ellipticum is a species of flowering plant in the family Heliotropiaceae, native to Ukraine, Crimea, European Russia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Pakistan. It is a weed and contaminant of cumin and other herbs and spices.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Heliotropium ellipticum 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.
