The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to HELIOTROPIUM

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Perennial
 
    2. Stems, leaves not fleshy, soft-hairy; corolla purple
H. amplexicaule
    2' Stems, leaves fleshy, glabrous; corolla white to bluish
H. curassavicum
  1' Annual
 
    3. Corolla limb 8–12 mm wide; flowers axillary, solitary
H. convolvulaceum var. californicum
    3' Corolla limb 3–5 mm wide; inflorescence with many flowers in terminal coiled spikes
H. europaeum


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