Schobera angiosperma (Murray) Britton
Heliotropium angiospermum Murray
Scorpiontail, scorpion’s tail
Scorpiontail is common in tropical North and South America.
Plants: Usually this shrub is prostrate, forming mats, but it can be more erect, up to 1½′ (50 cm) in height. Stems and leaves are fleshy, retaining water.
Leaves: Alternate, elliptical, ovate, or lanceolate, grayish to blue-green. They have deeply veined surfaces, and hairy undersides. Leaves are ½–4 ⨉ ⅜–¾″ (1.5–10 ⨉ 1–2 cm) in size.
Flowers: Curled, coiling single or double rows of small bell-shaped white flowers. Each flower is white, five-lobed, often with a yellow-green throat, and five stamens. Flowers appear all year.
Fruits: Two nutlets, each ~1/16″ (2–2.8 mm) across. Each nutlet contains one or two seeds.
Habitats: Saline soils: beach sand, alkali flats, and salt marshes.
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References:
McMullen, Conley K., Flowering Plants of the Galápagos, Comstock Publishing Associates, 1999, p. 180
Heliotropium parviflorum L.
Schobera angiosperma (Murray) Britton
Schobera angiosperma (Murray) Britton
4/10/2015 · Gulf Coast Visitor Center, Everglades National Park, Everglades City, Florida · ≈ 6 × 4½″ (15 × 11 cm) 
4/10/2015 · Gulf Coast Visitor Center, Everglades National Park, Everglades City, Florida · ≈ 9 × 7″ (23 × 17 cm) 
4/10/2015 · Gulf Coast Visitor Center, Everglades National Park, Everglades City, Florida · ≈ 12 × 8″ (31 × 21 cm) 
4/4/2025 · Interpretation Center Gianny Arismendi, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, San Cristóbal, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador 
3/31/2025 · Puerto Egas, Santiago, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador 
4/4/2025 · Interpretation Center Gianny Arismendi, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, San Cristóbal, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador 
3/31/2025 · Puerto Egas, Santiago, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador 
4/4/2025 · Interpretation Center Gianny Arismendi, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, San Cristóbal, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador 
| 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 | angiospermum |
Heliotropium angiospermum description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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