Whilst birding Deffi Park recently I came
across a Salt Heliotrope Heliotropium
curassavicum. It is an erect or spreading plant with, weak stems, stems
fleshy, glabrous. The leaves are Grey-green or bluish-green; mostly oval or
oblanceolate, short petioles or sub-sessile. The flower Color: White turning
pale purple or yellow in the corolla throat; flowers small ¼ inch with 5
rounded lobes, bell-shaped, inflorescence spikes 2 to 4, scorpioid (like a
scorpions upward-curled tail). Its Habitat Preferences are salty alkaline
soils, sandy soils, streams and in or near moist areas.
