Heliotropium curassavicum var. curassavicum

Doubtfully present in:

French Guiana

Native to:

Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Central American Pacific Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Colombia, Colorado, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Netherlands Antilles, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Northern Territory, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Puerto Rico, Queensland, South Australia, South Carolina, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Texas, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Victoria, Virginia, Western Australia, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Algeria, Angola, Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Botswana, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Free State, Greece, Gulf States, Illinois, India, Jawa, KwaZulu-Natal, Libya, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Tunisia, Türkiye, West Himalaya

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.
• Zuloaga, F.O. & Zanotti, C.A. (eds.) (2022). Flora Argentina. Flora vascular de la República Argentina 19(3): 1-384. INTA, IMBIV & IBODA.

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