Heliotropium indicumL.

Indian Heliotrope

WFO wfo-0000718658 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Heliotropium indicum, photographed by 雲一百香果
fig. a 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203144527
Heliotropium indicum, photographed by 雲一百香果
fig. b 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202847960
Heliotropium indicum, photographed by Navapol Komanasin
fig. c Navapol Komanasin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190254562
Heliotropium indicum, photographed by Anthony Batista
fig. d Anthony Batista, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197509892
Heliotropium indicum, photographed by Sunday Berlioz KAKPO
fig. e Sunday Berlioz KAKPO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196245272
Heliotropium indicum, photographed by Paulmathi Vinod
fig. f Paulmathi Vinod, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180925788
Heliotropium indicum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. g Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 176393451
Heliotropium indicum, photographed by Meghaa
fig. h Meghaa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185800099

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Flowering n = 1,284 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 1,284 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Eliopia riparia Raf.
  • Eliopia serrata Raf.
  • Heliophytum foetidum DC.
  • Heliophytum indicum DC.
  • Heliophytum velutinum DC.
  • Heliotropium africanum Schumach. & Thonn.
  • Heliotropium anisophyllum P.Beauv.
  • Heliotropium cordifolium Moench
  • Heliotropium foetidum Salisb.
  • Heliotropium horminifolium Mill.
  • Heliotropium parviflorum Blanco
  • Tiaridium anisophyllum G.Don
  • Tiaridium indicum Lehm.
  • Tiaridium indicum var. mexicanum M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Tiaridium velutinum Lehm.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.