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Taxon:  Heliotropium europaeum L.



Summary
Genus:
Heliotropium
Family:
Boraginaceae
Subfamily:
Heliotropioideae
Nomen number:
18823
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:130. 1753
Verified:
05/20/1992 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
3 (3  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. Flora of Libya. 1976-
  3. Bennett, M. Pulmonarias and the Borage family. 2003 117.
  4. Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 Note: poisonous
  5. Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. 1970
  6. Craven, L. A. 1996. A taxonomic revision of Heliotropium (Boraginaceae) in Australia. Austral. Syst. Bot. 9:550-552. http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/151.htm
  7. Cufodontis, G. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. 1953-1972
  8. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  9. Der Marderosian, A. & L. Liberti. Natural product medicine: a scientific guide to foods, drugs, cosmetics. 1988 Note: poisonous
  10. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  11. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  12. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html
  13. Everest, S. L. Poisonous plants of Australia. 1981 Note: poisonous
  14. Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. 1991
  15. Greuter, W. et al., eds. Med-Checklist. 1984-
  16. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  17. Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17. 1993
  18. Holm, L. et al. A geographical atlas of world weeds. 1979
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  21. Kartesz, J. T. North American plant atlas. The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2011 http://www.bonap.org/MapSwitchboard.html
  22. Kingsbury, J. M. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. 1964 Note: poisonous
  23. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964
  24. Lems, K. Floristic botany of the Canary islands. 1960
  25. Pammel, L. H. Manual of poisonous plants. 1911 Note: poisonous
  26. Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. Noxious weeds of Australia. 1992 Note: Inkata Press, Melbourne
  27. Pignatti, S. Flora d'Italia. 1982
  28. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  29. Willis, J. H. A handbook to plants in Victoria. 1970-1972
  30. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
  31. Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. Flora palaestina. 1966-
Common names
English
barooga-weed –
caterpillar-weed –
common heliotrope –
European heliotrope –
European turnsole –
heliotrope –
hemp-agrimony –
Wandarrie-curse –
wild heliotrope –
French
héliotrope d'Europe –
German
europäische Sonnenwende –
Sonnenwende –
Portuguese (Brazil)
heliotrópio-europeu –
Spanish
verrucaria –
Swedish
ogräsheliotrop –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaMacaronesiaPortugalAzores 
1NativeAfricaMacaronesiaPortugalMadeira Islands 
1NativeAfricaMacaronesiaSpainCanary Islands 
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaAlgeria n.
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaEgypt n.
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaLibya n.
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaMorocco  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaTunisia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusArmenia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusAzerbaijan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusGeorgia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusRussian FederationDagestan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusRussian Federation-CiscaucasiaCiscaucasia 
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern Asia******  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaCyprus  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaEgyptSinai 
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaJordan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaTurkey  
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNew South Wales 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaSouth Australia 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaVictoria 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaWestern Australia 
1NativeEuropeEast EuropeMoldova  
1NativeEuropeEast EuropeRussian Federation-European partEuropean parts.
1NativeEuropeEast EuropeUkraineKrym 
1NativeEuropeMiddle EuropeAustria  
1NativeEuropeMiddle EuropeCzech Republic  
1NativeEuropeMiddle EuropeGermany  
1NativeEuropeMiddle EuropeHungary  
1NativeEuropeMiddle EuropeSlovakia  
1NativeEuropeMiddle EuropeSwitzerland  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeAlbania  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeBulgaria  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeCroatia  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeGreece incl. Crete
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeItaly incl. Sardinia, Sicily
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeRomania  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeSerbia  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeSlovenia  
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeFrance incl. Corsica
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropePortugal  
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeSpain incl. Baleares
4NaturalizedAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGansuw.
4NaturalizedAsia-TemperateChinaChinaXinjiang 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesIllinois 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesIndiana 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesMassachusetts 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesNew Jersey 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesNew York 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesOhio 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesPennsylvania 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesWest Virginia 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSouth-Central U.S.A.United StatesTexas 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesAlabama 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesArkansas 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesDelaware 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesFlorida 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesGeorgia 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesKentucky 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesLouisiana 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesMaryland 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesMississippi 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesNorth Carolina 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesSouth Carolina 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesTennessee 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesVirginia 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSouthwestern U.S.A.United StatesCalifornia 
6Other    native status in Australia uncertain
Native
Africa
  • MACARONESIA: Spain [Canary Islands], Portugal [Azores, Madeira Islands]
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria (n.), Egypt (n.), Libya (n.), Morocco, Tunisia
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia], Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Dagestan]
  • WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Egypt [Sinai], ******, Jordan, Turkey
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia]
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part (s.)], Moldova, Ukraine [Krym]
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (incl. Crete), Croatia, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain (incl. Baleares), France (incl. Corsica), Portugal
Naturalized
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Gansu (w.), Xinjiang]
Northern America
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois]
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
  • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]
Other (native status in Australia uncertain)
Economic Uses
Medicines
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Pammel; Everist; Der Marderosian) –
Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Noxweed Aust) –


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