Heliotrope
Heliotropium curassavicum
This photo was taken in Phoenix June 2007 and is hosted at Wikimedia.
PERENNIAL: Warm season herbaceous perennial often growing nearly
prostrate on soil.
LEAVES: Rounded, elyptic leaves are succulent with a blue-gray cast.
RANGE: Common on alkaline or saline soil that is occasionally moist.
River flood plains. Sometimes a weed in urban and agricultural settings in the
Sonoran Desert.
FLOWERS: White, five-pointed flowers borne in several distinctly
scorpioid (coiled) spikes.
FRUIT: Small capsules breaking into four nutlets.
UNARMED: