Heliotropium hirsutissimum Grauer

Οικογένεια: Βοραγινίδες

Ηλιοτρόπιο το μαλλιαρό (Heliotropium hirsutissimum Grauer)

Moderately branched annual, 20–60 cm; whole plant greyish-green from a mixture of short, subappressed hairs and long, patent hairs, the latter especially above. Leaves petiolate; blade rather small (usually 15–25 mm), elliptic-ovate. Flowers subsessile, in dense, scorpioid cymes. Calyx lobed almost to the base. Corolla tube puberulent outside; limb 5–8 mm in diam., white with yellow centre and scales in throat. Nutlets 4, tuberculate. Stigmatic cone depressed-pulvinate.

Σαν το αδελφάκι του το ευρωπαικό (H. europaeum) με πιο μεγάλο άνθος. Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στη Χλωρίδα μας, Φυτολόγιο, greekflora.gr, Flora of Greece.

Heliotropium hirsutissimum

Heliotropium hirsutissimum

Heliotropium hirsutissimum

Heliotropium hirsutissimum