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Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s flora taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not currently being reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or the census. Due to the rapidly approaching holiday season and associated agency and facility soft closures, along with the substantial work involved in data mapping, cleaning, and verification, the migration to the new collection management software is not expected to occur before 1 March 2026, when a further update will be provided. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

The notice period started at 9:45 am on Friday, 12 December 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 2 March 2026 +08:00.

Heliotropium europaeum L.
Common Heliotrope

Reference
Sp.Pl. [Linnaeus] 1:130 (1753)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Alien to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Annual, herb, 0.1-0.3(-0.6) m high. Fl. white, Jan to Dec (usually Dec to Mar).

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 3 September 1999
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Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Gascoyne, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Murchison, Nullarbor, Pilbara, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Ashburton, Augustus, Chichester, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Eastern Murchison, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Nullarbor Plain, Perth, Recherche, Roebourne, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee, Western Murchison.
IMCRA Regions
Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Broomehill-Tambellup, Bruce Rock, Busselton, Cockburn, Coolgardie, Dardanup, East Pilbara, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Gosnells, Harvey, Jerramungup, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kwinana, Lake Grace, Manjimup, Meekatharra, Menzies, Mundaring, Murchison, Narembeen, Narrogin, Pingelly, Port Hedland, Ravensthorpe, Upper Gascoyne, Wagin, Wickepin, Woodanilling, Yilgarn.