| Scientific Name: | Heliotropium arborescens cvs. |
| Common Name: | heliotrope, cherry pie |
| Family Name: | Boraginaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 11: (above 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal, Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting, Fragrance, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Rugose, Pubescent, Elliptic, Ciliate, Crenate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Blue, Violet, Purple, Dark-red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, ovate, most 4-7cm long x 2-4cm wide, dark, very rugose (similar to viburnum), with a strong scent when crushed; flowers in a large, dense, purple/white/blue corymb-like cyme. | |