Calystegia silvatica |
Calystegia occidentalis |
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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 |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous. | Perennials or subshrubs, rootstock woody. | ||||||||
Herbage | glabrous. |
usually puberulent or pubescent, sometimes glabrescent, rarely tomentellous or ± villous. |
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Stems | twining-climbing. |
decumbent, procumbent, or twining-climbing, to 400 cm. |
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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 ± 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. |
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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. |
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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 9–15 mm; corolla white or cream, (20–)25–48 mm. |
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Calystegia silvatica |
Calystegia occidentalis |
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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 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.) |
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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 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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