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

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Old flowers. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

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

Common Name

Common Heliotrope, Potato Weed, Heliotrope

Family

Boraginaceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb, to 30cm tall.  Leaves with a somewhat unpleasant smell when crushed, alternating up the stems, 1-9cm long, 8-30mm wide, flat, hairy, tips blunt.  Flowers white, tubular, with five lobes, in dense one-sided spikes at the ends of the stems.  

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~europaeum