Japanese name: ダキバニオイムラサキ（抱葉匂紫） Scientific name:Heliotropium amplexicaule
[Overview]
A perennial 30–50 cm tall.
The whole plant is hairy and slightly sticky.
The stem branches.
Leaves are simple and alternate, lanceolate, 2–9 cm long, wrinkled along the veins, with wavy margins.
There is no leaf stalk, and the leaf base clasps the stem.
The leaves at the base of the stem are opposite.
Scorpioid cymes at the stem tips bear flowers densely in two rows on one side.
The flowers are blue-purple to purple; the corolla is 5-lobed with a yellow center.
[History]
It was discovered in Tama, Tokyo in 2000–2001, and has been confirmed as naturalized in the Kanto region and westward.
