Common Name

Spreading Heliotrope, Prostrate Heliotrope, Creeping Heliotrope, Prostrate Potato Weed

Family

Boraginaceae

Notes

Introduced prostrate or sprawling annual forb, usually less than 5cm high. Leaves alternating along the stems, 1.5-3.5cm long, 5-18mm wide, flat, hairy, margins curved down and slightly wavy, tips blunt. Flowers white, tubular, with 5 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 564

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