Calystegia silvatica |
Calystegia collina |
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hedge bindweed, large bindweed, morning-glory, short-stalk false bindweed |
Coast Range false bindweed, hillside morning glory |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous. | Perennials, rhizomatous. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Herbage | glabrous. |
tomentellous, tomentose, or villous. |
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Stems | twining-climbing. |
ascending-decumbent, to 50 cm, sometimes 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. |
in basal rosettes; blade usually triangular, sometimes notably 3-lobed, to 40 mm, base ± lobed, lobes oblong to triangular, 1–3-pointed, margins ± undulate or not, apex rounded to acute. |
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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, lanceolate, linear-elliptic, or ovate, 5–17 × 1.5–14 mm. |
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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 8–13 mm; corolla white, (25–)27–50(–55) mm. |
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Calystegia silvatica |
Calystegia collina |
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Distribution |
North America; Europe; Asia; Pacific Islands (New Zealand); temperate regions
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California
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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 5 (5 in the 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 | Convolvulus collinus, C. malacophyllus subsp. collinus | ||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (Kitaibel) Grisebach: Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2: 74. (1844) — (as sylvatica) | (Greene) Brummitt: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52: 215. (1965) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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