Heliotrope description Heliotrope / Heliotropium / - perennials from the Borage family, this plant can be herbaceous or shrubby. In general, Borage plants have about three hundred different plant species. Their favorite habitat is subtropics, tropics, temperate American and Mediterranean belts. The property of a plant to turn after the sun is directly related to its name, which consists of two Greek words, which are translated as [...]