BINDWEED HELIOTROPE
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Heliotropium convolvulaceum A. Gray
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| Kearney County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon) |
| Annual |
| Height: 3-10 inches |
| Family: Boraginaceae - Borage Family |
| Flowering Period: July, August |
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| Also Called: | | Phlox heliotrope. | | Stems: | | Erect, usually branched from base. Plants appressed-strigose. | | Leaves: | | Alternate, simple, not succulent; blade lanceolate to elliptic or lanceolate-oblong, 2/5 to 1.5 inch long, 1/5 to 3/5 inch wide, margins entire, tip obtuse to acute. | | Inflorescences: | | Scorpioid cymes, terminal. | | Flowers: | | Sepals 5, united basally, calyx .2 to .28 inch, lobes narrowly lanceolate; corolla white, salverform to funnelform, limb 1/3 to 4/5 inch wide, lobes 5, spreading; stamens 5, included; style 1, arising from top of ovary, included, undivided. | | Fruits: | | Schizocarps of four 1-seeded nutlets; nutlets 1/10 to 1/8 inch, appressed-hirsute. | | Habitat: | | Sand prairie, sandsage prairie, and sandy mixed-grass prairie. | | Distribution: | | West 2/3 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Uses: | | The Navajo used the seeds for food. | | Comments: | | Heliotropium, sun and turn, alluding to the belief that flowering plants turned toward the sun and convolvulaceum, for the genus Convolvulus, for the resemblance of the flowers. |
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| Bindweed heliotrope |  | | 104 KB | | Kearney County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon) |
| | Bindweed heliotrope leaves |  | | 83 KB | | Kearney County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon) |
| | Bindweed heliotrope flowers |  | | 80 KB | | Kearney County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon) |
| | Bindweed heliotrope leaves |  | | 116 KB | | Kearney County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon) |
| | Bindweed heliotrope |  | | 90 KB | | Kearney County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon) |
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