Index / Search / Heliotropium amplexicaule
§1 Plant
Heliotropium amplexicaule Vahl
vernacular clasping heliotrope — species · Boraginaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Boraginaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Heliotropium
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
County-level range
· 99 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 99 counties across 13 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 14 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Clay 12019
- Columbia 12023
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hernando 12053
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Madison 12079
- Marion 12083
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Seminole 12117
- Sumter 12119
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 20 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HEAM4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2925790 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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