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

bush morning glory, chaparral false bindweed, pale morning-glory, western morning glory

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

glabrous.

usually puberulent or pubescent, sometimes glabrescent, rarely tomentellous or ± villous.

Stems

twining-climbing.

decumbent, procumbent, or twining-climbing, to 400 cm.

Leaves

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

blade ± triangular, 15–40 mm, base usually lobed, lobes rounded or 1–2-pointed, basal sinus quadrate, rounded and ± parallel-sided, or V-shaped, base sometimes ± cuneate.

Bracts

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

(1–)3–12(–15) mm distant from sepals, lanceolate, linear, linear-oblong, oblanceolate, or narrowly to broadly triangular, 4–22(–30) × 1–4(–7) mm, margins entire or proximally lobed or toothed.

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 9–15 mm;

corolla white or cream, (20–)25–48 mm.

Calystegia silvatica

Calystegia occidentalis

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

Subspecies occidentalis and subsp. fulcrata are distinguished essentially by entire versus proximally lobed or toothed bract margins; the distinction is not absolute.

(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. Peduncles (1–)2–4-flowered; bract margins entire.
subsp. occidentalis
1. Peduncles 1-flowered; bract margins proximally lobed or toothed.
subsp. fulcrata
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. macrostegia, C. malacophylla, 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. occidentalis subsp. fulcrata, C. occidentalis subsp. occidentalis
Synonyms Convolvulus silvaticus Convolvulus occidentalis
Name authority (Kitaibel) Grisebach: Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2: 74. (1844) — (as sylvatica) (A. Gray) Brummitt: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52: 214. (1965)
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