Heliotropium hirsutissimum

Heliotropium hirsutissimum, the hairy heliotrope, is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to the eastern Mediterranean; Greece (including Crete), Turkey (including the European portion), Cyprus, the Levant, Egypt, and Libya.^[1] It contains a number of pyrrolizidine alkaloids.^[2] Grauer is listed as the authority by some sources.^[3]

Heliotropium hirsutissimum
Inflorescence
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Boraginales
Family:	Boraginaceae
Genus:	Heliotropium
Species:	H. hirsutissimum
Binomial name
Heliotropium hirsutissimum Weber
Synonyms[1]
Heliotropium villosum Willd.