Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_heliotropium_anomalum
Hinahina Kū Kahakai
Heliotropium anomalum
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About Hinahina Kū Kahakai
A low, mat-forming coastal shrub with narrow to spoon-shaped leaves densely covered in soft silky silvery hairs. Short coiled flower clusters bear small white-to-pale-purple funnel flowers with five or six lobes. Small fruits separate into four tiny one-seeded nutlets. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Heliotropium anomalum
- Hawaiian names
- hinahina · hinahina kū kahakai · pōhinahina
- Other names
- Heliotropium anomalum · hinahina kū kahakai · hinahina · pōhinahina · Heliotropium anomalum var. argenteum
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Endemic
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Prostrate subshrubs, sometimes forming mats; stems prostrate, decumbent, or sometimes ascending, producing many short side branches along the length of the main stem, 1-5(-10) dm long, flowering stems ascending to erect.
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- A low, mat-forming coastal shrub with narrow to spoon-shaped leaves densely covered in soft silky silvery hairs. Short coiled flower clusters bear small white-to-pale-purple funnel flowers with five or six lobes. Small fruits separate into four tiny one-seeded nutlets. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.