Calystegia silvatica |
Calystegia atriplicifolia |
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hedge bindweed, large bindweed, morning-glory, short-stalk false bindweed |
night-blooming morning-glory, nightblooming false bindweed |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous. | Perennials, rhizomatous. | ||||||||
Herbage | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
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Stems | twining-climbing. |
ascending-decumbent, erect, suberect, or trailing, to 10–50 cm or almost absent. |
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Leaves | blade ± cordate, to 50–120 mm, base rounded or lobed, lobes rounded or 1-pointed, basal sinus ± quadrate to rounded. |
blade rounded-deltate or triangular-hastate, 20–40(–60) mm wide, base cuneate or lobed, lobes at right angles to midrib or slightly retrorse, apex acute to obtuse. |
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Bracts | immediately subtending sepals, lanceolate, to 30 × 15–35 mm, proximally saccate, margins strongly enfolding sepals, apex obtuse to truncate. |
immediately subtending sepals, elliptic, ovate, or suborbiculate, 8–19 × 3–18 mm, proximally flat or saccate, scarcely to closely enfolding sepals, apex acute, emarginate, obtuse, or rounded. |
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Flowers | sepals oval to ovate, 15–23 mm; corolla white, sometimes pinkish-striped, rarely otherwise pink-tinged, 43–70[–88] mm; stamens 23–40 mm; anthers 4–6.5 mm. |
sepals 10–15 mm; corolla white, sometimes pink or purple-striped, 31–73 mm. |
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Calystegia silvatica |
Calystegia atriplicifolia |
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Distribution |
North America; Europe; Asia; Pacific Islands (New Zealand); temperate regions
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w United States
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Discussion | Subspecies 3 (2 in the flora). Subspecies silvatica is native to eastern Mediterranean Europe; it has corollas (50–)55–75(–88) mm, stamens (25–)28–36(–39) mm, and bract apices emarginate to truncate. Intermediates between Calystegia silvatica and C. sepium may be due to ancient or recent hybridization. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (2 in flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Calystegia | Convolvulaceae > Calystegia | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Convolvulus silvaticus | |||||||||
Name authority | (Kitaibel) Grisebach: Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2: 74. (1844) — (as sylvatica) | Hallier f.: Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 385, plate 13, fig. 2. (1897) | ||||||||
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