Heliotropium europaeum  

Distribution: Throughout the Middle East to Pakistan and India

Hapit:Annual,densely pubesent,erect herb up to c. 50 cm tall. Branches herbaceous, rather stout, densely pubescent. 

Leaves:Petiolate, the petioles on lower leaves up to c. 5 cm long;lamina ovate, lanceolate,elliptic to obovate, entire,, up to c. 8 x 4 cm, usually obtuse but often acute.

Inflorescences: terminal or extra axillary, somtimes axillary, spicate, scorpioid cymes; the cymes single or paird, somewhat racemose on robust branches, up to about 6 cm (rarely to 13 cm) long: flowers in 2 dense rows on each cyme.

Perianth: Calyx 2-3 mm long. divided almost to the base, persistent, the lobes finally spreading at the dehiscrnce of the nutlets. Corolla white, the tube as long as or a little longer than the calyx lobes, somewhat constricted at the mouth; lobes spreading, relatively short: tube hairy outside.

Stamen: Anthers small, c 1 mm long, inserted near middle of corolla-tube.

Ovary: Stigma sessile or with short style, narrowly conical, bifid or bilobed at the tip. Nutlets 4, sparsely or densely retrose-pubescent, as long as the calyx lobes or a little shorter or shortly exceeding the calyx, usually green.