Bloom Native gardener's
field companion

Explore

Field report Layers Search
Log in Sign up
  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Borages
  6. Borage Family
  7. Heliotropioideae

subfamily

Heliotropioideae

Heliotropioideae

Includes
11 native 5 introduced 8 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Heliotrope 5 native
  • Heliotropes 4 native
  • Myriopus 1 native
  • Soldierbushes 1 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native Heliotropioideae All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Alkali Heliotrope Heliotropium curassavicum bees 3 food 11 flowers 92
  • Chiggery Grapes Heliotropium verdcourtii food 40 flowers 27
  • Scorpion's-tail Heliotropium angiospermum flowers 63
  • Sea Lavender Tournefortia gnaphalodes flowers 25
  • Pineland Heliotrope Euploca polyphylla flowers 14
  • Fourspike Heliotrope Euploca procumbens flowers 7
  • Pasture Heliotrope Euploca tenella
  • Phlox Heliotrope Euploca convolvulacea
  • Polynesian Heliotrope Heliotropium anomalum
  • Twining Soldierbush Myriopus volubilis
  • Key West Heliotrope Euploca fruticosa

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect