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hedge bindweed, large bindweed, morning-glory, short-stalk false bindweed

island false bindweed, island morning glory

Habit Perennials, rhizomatous. Perennials or subshrubs, rootstock woody.
Herbage

glabrous.

glabrescent, glabrous, or ± hairy, including puberulent and/or pubescent.

Stems

twining-climbing.

prostrate, weakly trailing, or twining-climbing, to 100 cm, or strongly twining-climbing, to 900+ cm.

Leaves

blade ± cordate, to 50–120 mm, base rounded or lobed, lobes rounded or 1-pointed, basal sinus ± quadrate to rounded.

blade linear or broadly to narrowly triangular, to 130 × 1–120 mm, basally lobed, lobes 2–3-pointed or rounded, basal sinus acute, rounded, or ± quadrate.

Bracts

immediately subtending sepals, lanceolate, to 30 × 15–35 mm, proximally saccate, margins strongly enfolding sepals, apex obtuse to truncate.

immediately subtending sepals, lanceolate to ovate or suborbiculate, (6–)8–30(–37) × 4–30 mm, proximally flat, keeled, or saccate.

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 7–25 mm;

corolla white or cream, sometimes fading pink to purplish, 22–68 mm.

Calystegia silvatica

Calystegia macrostegia

Distribution
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North America; Europe; Asia; Pacific Islands (New Zealand); temperate regions
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n Mexico; 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 6 (6 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Peduncles 1–2 per axil; anthers 4–5 mm.
subsp. fraterniflora
1. Peduncles 1 per axil; anthers 5–6.5 mm.
subsp. disjuncta
1. Bracts 16–30 mm wide, proximally keeled or saccate.
→ 2
2. Bracts 13–23(–26); sepals 10–17(–22) mm; corollas 36–55(–60) mm; stamens 17–26 mm.
subsp. macrostegia
2. Bracts (19–)22–30(–37); sepals 16–25 mm; corollas 47–68 mm; stamens 23–32 mm.
subsp. amplissima
1. Bracts 4–16 mm wide, proximally flat, keeled, or ± saccate.
→ 3
3. Bract apices acuminate, emarginate, or obtuse.
subsp. cyclostegia
3. Bract apices acute.
→ 4
4. Herbage ± grayish pubescent.
subsp. arida
4. Herbage glabrous or puberulent, usually glabrescent.
→ 5
5. Leaf blades broadly to narrowly tri­angular, (7–)12–20(–30) mm wide excluding lobes.
subsp. intermedia
5. Leaf blades linear to narrowly tri­angular, 1–7 mm wide excluding lobes.
subsp. tenuifolia
Source FNA vol. 14. FNA vol. 14.
Parent taxa Convolvulaceae > Calystegia Convolvulaceae > Calystegia
Sibling taxa
C. atriplicifolia, C. catesbeiana, C. collina, C. felix, C. hederacea, C. longipes, C. macounii, C. macrostegia, C. malacophylla, C. occidentalis, C. peirsonii, C. pubescens, C. purpurata, C. sepium, C. soldanella, C. spithamaea, C. stebbinsii, C. subacaulis, C. vanzuukiae
C. atriplicifolia, C. catesbeiana, C. collina, C. felix, C. hederacea, C. longipes, C. macounii, C. malacophylla, C. occidentalis, C. peirsonii, C. pubescens, C. purpurata, C. sepium, C. silvatica, C. soldanella, C. spithamaea, C. stebbinsii, C. subacaulis, C. vanzuukiae
Subordinate taxa
C. silvatica subsp. disjuncta, C. silvatica subsp. fraterniflora
C. macrostegia subsp. amplissima, C. macrostegia subsp. arida, C. macrostegia subsp. cyclostegia, C. macrostegia subsp. intermedia, C. macrostegia subsp. macrostegia, C. macrostegia subsp. tenuifolia
Synonyms Convolvulus silvaticus Convolvulus macrostegius
Name authority (Kitaibel) Grisebach: Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2: 74. (1844) — (as sylvatica) (Greene) Brummitt: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52: 214. (1965)
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