Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, 80km north of Broken Hill, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, 80km north of Broken Hill, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, 80km north of Broken Hill, NSW

Common Name

Rough Heliotrope

Family

Boraginaceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 60cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5-8.5mm long, 4-16mm wide, flat, bristly, sticky, edges rolled under and slightly wavy. Flowers fragrant, tubular, with 5 lobes, initially short dense clusters at the tops of the stems, then in short dense one-sided spikes. Vulnerable Vic.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 562

PlantNET description:   http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Heliotropium_asperrimum