Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Pilbara, WA

Flowering plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Smooth Heliotrope

Family

Boraginaceae

Notes

Introduced annual or perennial forb, prostrate or to 25cm tall. Leaves succulent, alternating along the stems, 0.6-4cm long, 2-10mm wide, flat, hairless, glaucous. Flowers white to pinkish, tubular, with five lobes, in dense one-sided spikes at the ends of the stems. Fruit green and fleshy at first, then drying brown.

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 563

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Heliotropium~curassavicum