Garden heliotrope
Heliotropium arborescens L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 88 cm
- wide
- 88 cm
Boraginaceae
Also called Cherry-pie
Formerly Heliotropium corymbosum, Heliotropium grandiflorum, Heliotropium odoratissimum, Heliotropium odoratum, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. South AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 76 cm to 99 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–2.5 ft; Wikipedia 1.2–1.2 m
- Spread
- 76 cm to 99 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–2.5 ft; Wikipedia 1.2–1.2 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 2 °C (USDA zone 10b)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -1.1 °C; Wikipedia 5 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Estonian
- Harilik heliotroop
- Finnish
- Tuoksuheliotrooppi
- Chinese
- 南美天芥菜
- Simplified Chinese
- 南美天芥菜, 香水草
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- 3D model: Heliotropium arborescens (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.