Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Asteranae > Order Boraginales > Family Boraginaceae > Genus Heliotropium

Heliotropium europaeum L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Heliotropium*	L.	accepted genus name
*Heliophytum*	(Cham.) DC.	synonym

Species group names

*Heliotropium europaeum subsp. tenuiflorum*	(Guss.) Nyman	heterotypic synonym
*Heliotropium europaeum var. tenuiflorum*	Guss.	heterotypic synonym
*Heliotropium tenuiflorum*	(Guss.) Guss.	heterotypic synonym
*Heliotropium dolosum*	De Not.	synonym
*Heliotropium pycnanthum*	P. Candargy	synonym
*Heliotropium europaeum var. eichwaldii*	auct. ital.	misapplied name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Aragonese: cola de mardano; ierba cornuda; verrucaria; yerba negra sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Catalan: blet blanc; blets blancs; cúa d´escorpió; cua d'escorpí; cualgirasol; girasol; herba berruguera; herba paixarella; herba passerella; herba verruguera; mal gira-sol; malgirasol; malgirassol; mira-sol; passarelles; passerella; verruguera sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Euskera: gireguzki; gireguzquia; gire-iguzkia; guire-iguzkia; pika-belar; suarrosto; suharrosto; verrucária sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Galician: erva das verrugas; herba da disenteria; herba das cámaras de sangre; herba das cámaras do sangue; herba verrugueira; rabo de carneiro; rabo do carneiro; tornassol; verrucária sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

High Aragonese: berrucaria; cola de mardano; zeniziallo sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Majorcan: girasol; herba berruguera; mal gira-sol; malgirasol sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Portuguese: erva verruga; erva-das-verrugas; herba da disenteria; herba das cámaras de sangre; herva das verrugas; herva verruga; orsila; rabo de carneiro; tornasol; tornassol; tornesol; tornesol da Europa; verrucaria; verrucária sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Spanish, Castillian: ferrucaria; heliotropio mayor; heliotropios; heliotropo; heliótropo; heliotropo mayor; hierba borreguera; hierba correguera; hierba de la disentería; hierba de las verrugas; hierba verruguera; pendientitos; tornasol; verrucaria; yerba berruguera; yerba borreguera; yerba correguera; yerba de las verrugas sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Valencian: cua d´escorpí; cua d´escropí; heliotrop; herba paixarella; herba paixarellera; yerba paixarella

Literature

nomenclatural reference	L., Sp. Pl. 1753.

Genbank

Link to Genbank

Citation

Valdés, B. (2011): Boraginaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Heliotropium europaeum L.. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=A53CE406-114A-471E-914C-58765F1962E6