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

Van Zuuk false bindweed, Van Zuuk's morning-glory

Habit Perennials, rhizomatous. Perennials, rhizomatous.
Herbage

glabrous.

glabrate or hairy, hairs minute, appressed or ascending.

Stems

twining-climbing.

trailing or weakly twining-climbing, to 100 cm.

Leaves

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

blade ± triangular-hastate (daggerlike), 20–40 mm, middle lobe ± lance-linear, (1–)2–7(–9) mm wide, base lobed, lobes 1–2-pointed.

Bracts

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

1–2 mm distant from sepals, linear, 5–16(–20) × 0.5–1.5 mm, proximally flat, 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 ovate to elliptic, 9–11 × 4–6 mm, apices obtuse-apiculate;

corolla white, 27–36 mm.

Calystegia silvatica

Calystegia vanzuukiae

Phenology Flowering Mar–Sep.
Habitat Gabbro or serpentine soils, chaparral, mixed or coniferous woodlands, foothills.
Elevation 800–1200 m. (2600–3900 ft.)
Distribution
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North America; Europe; Asia; Pacific Islands (New Zealand); temperate regions
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CA
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.)

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
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. occidentalis, C. peirsonii, C. pubescens, C. purpurata, C. sepium, C. silvatica, C. soldanella, C. spithamaea, C. stebbinsii, C. subacaulis
Subordinate taxa
C. silvatica subsp. disjuncta, C. silvatica subsp. fraterniflora
Synonyms Convolvulus silvaticus
Name authority (Kitaibel) Grisebach: Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2: 74. (1844) — (as sylvatica) Brummitt & Namoff: Aliso 31: 16, figs. 2–5. (2013)
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