| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Mostly in the northern and central Coastal Plain and the lower Piedmont; rare elsewhere, west to Forsyth County. First collected in the 1800s at an unknown location in "eastern N.C." by G. McCarthy.
Native of the Neotropics; in N.A. MA to IL and KS, south to FL and TX. | |
| Abundance | Infrequent to fairly common in the northern half of the Coastal Plain, except rare in the Piedmont and southern Coastal Plain. | |
| Habitat | Cropfields, barnyards, roadsides, forest margins, waste places, sandbar on Cape Fear River (Harnett Co.), edge of lake (Orange Co.), cleft in log on shore of Blewitt Lake (Richmond Co.). | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting July-November. | |
| Identification | Indian Heliotrope is readily identified by the single, slender, long raceme at the end of the stem or a branch -- often reaching 6 inches long. The flowers open from the base and slowly "work their way" to the tip, and thus when seen in bloom, usually only a small percentage of the raceme is in bloom. The flowers are light blue to white. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | | |
| Other Common Name(s) | Turnsole | |
| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | G5 | |
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| US Status | | |
| USACE-agcp | FAC link |
| USACE-emp | FAC link |
