Gardenia

Create Account Create Your Garden Become a Merchant Become a Designer Login

Garden
Design
Planting
Ideas
Growing
Plants
Flowers and
Plants
Plant
Finder
Create Account
Create Your Garden
Become a Merchant
Become a Designer
Login

Alphabetical Plant Listing

Home
Plants by Plant Family
Heliotropium - Heliotrope

View or Create Collections

Plant Families / Heliotropium - Heliotrope

Refine By

Season of Interest

Spring

Early Spring

Mid Spring

Late Spring

Summer

Early Summer

Mid Summer

Late Summer

Fall

Winter

Exposure

Full Sun

Partial Sun

Shade

Hardiness

Tolerance

Clay Soil

Deer

Drought

Rabbit

Dry Soil

Rocky Soil

Salt

Wet Soil

Attracts

Birds

Butterflies

Hummingbirds

Bees

Plant-Characteristics

Cut Flowers

Dried Arrangements

Fragrant

Plant of Merit

Showy

Evergreen

Semi-Evergreen

Fruit & Berries

Average-Height

< 1'

1' - 2'

2' - 3'

3' - 4'

4' - 5'

5' - 6'

6' - 7'

7' - 8'

8' - 9'

9' - 10'

10' - 20'

20' - 30'

30' - 40'

40' - 50'

> 50'

Average-Spread

< 1'

1' - 2'

2' - 3'

3' - 4'

4' - 5'

5' - 6'

6' - 7'

7' - 8'

8' - 9'

9' - 10'

10' - 20'

20' - 30'

30' - 40'

40' - 50'

> 50'

Soil-Type

Chalk

Clay

Loam

Sand

Soil-Drainage

Moist but Well-Drained

Moisture Retentive

Poorly Drained

Well-Drained

Soil-pH

Acid

Alkaline

Neutral

Heliotropium - Heliotrope

Heliotropium (Heliotrope) is a large genus of 325 species of annuals, perennials, sub-shrubs, or shrubs, grown for their large clusters of small, scented flowers in summer. Several heliotropes are popular garden plants, especially the garden heliotrope (H. arborescens), also used as an ingredient for perfume.

Pleasing and colorful in beds and borders or containers, heliotrope attracts bees and butterflies but is deer resistant.

Compare All Heliotropium - Heliotrope

Filters

Season of Interest

Spring

Early Spring

Mid Spring

Late Spring

Summer

Early Summer

Mid Summer

Late Summer

Fall

Winter

Exposure

Full Sun

Partial Sun

Shade

Hardiness

Tolerance

Clay Soil

Deer

Drought

Rabbit

Dry Soil

Rocky Soil

Salt

Wet Soil

Attracts

Birds

Butterflies

Hummingbirds

Bees

Plant-Characteristics

Cut Flowers

Dried Arrangements

Fragrant

Plant of Merit

Showy

Evergreen

Semi-Evergreen

Fruit & Berries

Average-Height

< 1'

1' - 2'

2' - 3'

3' - 4'

4' - 5'

5' - 6'

6' - 7'

7' - 8'

8' - 9'

9' - 10'

10' - 20'

20' - 30'

30' - 40'

40' - 50'

> 50'

Average-Spread

< 1'

1' - 2'

2' - 3'

3' - 4'

4' - 5'

5' - 6'

6' - 7'

7' - 8'

8' - 9'

9' - 10'

10' - 20'

20' - 30'

30' - 40'

40' - 50'

> 50'

Soil-Type

Chalk

Clay

Loam

Sand

Soil-Drainage

Moist but Well-Drained

Moisture Retentive

Poorly Drained

Well-Drained

Soil-pH

Acid

Alkaline

Neutral

Heliotropium angiospermum (Scorpion Tail)

Heliotropium angiospermum (Scorpion Tail) is an annual or short-lived perennial of upright to sprawling habit. Blooming year-round, it boasts a profusion of small, white flowers with yellow throats, borne in 2 rows along one side of a coiled terminal spike. Rich in nectar, the blossoms attract a variety of bees and butterflies.