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Heliotropium hirsutissimum, the hairy heliotrope, is a species of flowering plant in the family Heliotropiaceae. It is native to the eastern Mediterranean. (Grauer is listed as the authority by some sources.)
It contains a number of pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
It is native to Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Crete, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Palestine, Turkey (Türkiye), Turkey-in-Europe.
Heliotropium aegyptiacum · Heliotropium aff. wagneri · Clasping heliotrope · Scorpion's-tail · Polynesian heliotrope · Garden heliotrope · Heliotropium arboreum · Heliotropium argenteum · Heliotropium balfourii · Heliotropium crispum · Salt heliotrope · Heliotropium dentatum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Heliotropium hirsutissimum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
