• Family : BORAGINACEAE
  (Forget-Me-Not Or Borage Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : LASORA FAMILY (लसोड़ा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BORAGINACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Heliotropium supinum L.
• Common name : Dwarf Heliotrope
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : On plains and foothills of dry forests and also on fallow fields.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Guntur district, Anantapur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Raichur district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Nayagarh district, Cuttack district, Kendrapara district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Coimbatore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Dharmapuri district, Villipuram district
• World Distribution : Europe, North Africa, Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Heliotropium supinum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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