Heliotropium polyphyllum (Pineland heliotrope)

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Heliotropium polyphyllum Lehm.

Pineland heliotrope

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Heliotropium horizontale Small
Heliotropium leavenworthii Torr.
Heliotropium polyphyllum Lehm. var. horizontale (Small) R.W. Long

4/14/2015 · Pinelands, Everglades National Park, Florida · ≈ 6 × 8″ (16 × 19 cm)

4/14/2015 · Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, Florida · ≈ 6 × 6″ (16 × 15 cm) ID is uncertain

4/14/2015 · Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, Florida · ≈ 6 × 9″ (15 × 22 cm) ID is uncertain

4/14/2015 · Pinelands, Everglades National Park, Florida · ≈ 5 × 5″ (13 × 12 cm)

4/14/2015 · Pinelands, Everglades National Park, Florida · ≈ 3½ × 5″ (9.2 × 12 cm)

4/14/2015 · Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, Florida · ≈ 6 × 6″ (15 × 15 cm) ID is uncertain

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Asteridae	A large class that encompasses asters
Order	Lamiales	Aromatic herbs and shrubs, including lavender, lilac, olive, jasmine, ash, teak, snapdragon, sesame, psyllium, garden sage, mint, basil, and rosemary
Family	Boraginaceae	Borages or forget-me-nots
Genus	Heliotropium	From the Greek helios, “sun,” and trope, “turning,” thus meaning “sun-turning,” either a reference to the summer solstice when the first described species bloomed, or to the turning of flowers toward the sun, a characteristic of many species known as heliotropism
Species	polyphyllum	From Greek polys, ”many,“ and phyllon, ”leaf“

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Heliotropium polyphyllum description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.