Heliotropium suaveolens

Itırlı bambul

Annual, covered for the most part with short, adpressed hairs; sometimes on tiny tubercles. Stems erect, branched from base. Leaves ovate, to 35 mm, obtuse to subacute. Cymes very short and dense at first, becoming laxer and elongated. Calyx lobes 2,5-3 mm in flower, to 4 mm in fruit, linear-lanceolate, erect. Corolla 4-5 mm diam., limb rotate, hairy. Stigma subsessile, shortly conical, acute, glabrous. Nutlets ovoid, verrucose; glabrous. Fl. 6-10. Fallow fields, dry disturbed slopes, near sl. 1300 m.

Balkans, S. Russia, Caucasia, N. Iraq, N.W. Iran. E. Medit. element?