-Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

-Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

-Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

-Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)

-Borages Order (Boraginales)

-Borage Family (Family Boraginaceae)

-Subfamily Heliotropioideae

-Heliotropes (Genus Heliotropium)

-Indian Heliotrope (Heliotropium indicum)

Heliotropium indicum, commonly known as Indian heliotrope or "Hatisur" (elephant's trunk), is an annual, coarse herb that typically grows between 20 and 100 centimetres tall. It is easily recognized by its "scorpion-tail" or helicoid cyme—a long, coiled flower spike where tiny white to pale lavender blossoms sit in a single row, gradually unrolling as they mature. The plant is heavily covered in rough, white hairs (hirsute) and features broad, ovate leaves with a distinctive wrinkled or bullate surface. While widely naturalized in tropical regions worldwide, it thrives particularly in damp, disturbed soils such as waste places, ditches, and riverbanks. Though valued in traditional medicine for treating skin inflammation and wounds.