Calystegia silvatica |
Calystegia spithamaea |
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hedge bindweed, large bindweed, morning-glory, short-stalk false bindweed |
low false bindweed, upright false bindweed |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous. | Perennials, rhizomatous. | ||||||||||||
Herbage | glabrous. |
glabrate or tomentose, hairs sometimes whitish. |
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Stems | twining-climbing. |
erect, 10–35(–50) 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 narrowly to broadly elliptic, to 80 × 35 mm, base cuneate, rounded, or lobed, lobes rounded or ± 1-pointed, to 11 mm. |
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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, lance-ovate, oblong, or oval, (13–)16–25(–29) × 8–14(–20) mm, proximally flat or ± keeled, apex acute to obtuse, closely enfolding sepals. |
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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 12–17 mm; corolla white, 35–63(–67) mm. |
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Calystegia silvatica |
Calystegia spithamaea |
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Distribution |
North America; Europe; Asia; Pacific Islands (New Zealand); temperate regions
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e North America; c North America
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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 3 (3 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 spithamaeus | ||||||||||||
Name authority | (Kitaibel) Grisebach: Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2: 74. (1844) — (as sylvatica) | (Linnaeus) Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 143. (1813) | ||||||||||||
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