Calystegia silvatica |
Calystegia sepium |
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hedge bindweed, large bindweed, morning-glory, short-stalk false bindweed |
hedge bindweed, hedge false bindweed, larger bindweed, western hedge bindweed |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous. | Perennials, rhizomatous. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Herbage | glabrous. |
glabrate, glabrous, or hairy. |
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Stems | twining-climbing. |
trailing or twining-climbing. |
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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 linear, ovate, broadly to narrowly triangular, or triangular-hastate, (24–)36–50(–150) mm, base usually lobed, sometimes nearly truncate, lobes usually 1- or 2-pointed, sometimes rounded, basal sinus usually acute to rounded, rarely almost closed. |
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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, in subsp. erratica, intergrading with sepals, oblong, oval, or ovate, 12–34 × 5–26(–28) mm, proximally flat or keeled, not or scarcely saccate, margins not or scarcely enfolding sepals, apex acute to subobtuse or truncate. |
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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 lanceolate, 10–19(–25) mm; corolla pink or white, (28–)30–70(–80) mm. |
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Calystegia silvatica |
Calystegia sepium |
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Distribution |
North America; Europe; Asia; Pacific Islands (New Zealand); temperate regions
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North America; South America; Europe; Asia; Africa
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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 8 (6 in the flora). Subspecies of Calystegia sepium mostly show strong geographic separation; morphologic intermediates between subspecies of C. sepium and between C. sepium and other species of Calystegia make taxonomy difficult. Subspecies roseata Brummitt is known from Atlantic coasts of Europe, temperate coasts of South America, Easter Island, New Zealand, and Australia; subsp. spectabilis Brummitt is known from Europe and Asia. (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 sepium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (Kitaibel) Grisebach: Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2: 74. (1844) — (as sylvatica) | (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Prodr., 483. (1810) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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