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beach bindweed, beach false bindweed, beach morning-glory, coast morning-glory, seashore false bindweed, seaside morning-glory

night-blooming morning-glory, nightblooming false bindweed

Habit Perennials, rhizomatous. Perennials, rhizomatous.
Herbage

glabrous.

glabrous.

Stems

usually prostrate or trailing, sometimes twining-climbing, to 100(–250) cm.

ascending-decumbent, erect, suberect, or trailing, to 10–50 cm or almost absent.

Leaves

blade ± reniform, 15–35(–45) × 20–60(–70) mm, ± fleshy), base ± cuneate, apex emarginate or obtuse.

blade rounded-deltate or triangular-hastate, 20–40(–60) mm wide, base cuneate or lobed, lobes at right angles to midrib or slightly retrorse, apex acute to obtuse.

Bracts

immediately subtending sepals, ovate to suborbiculate, 7–16 × 5–10 mm, proximally flat, ± enfolding sepals.

immediately subtending sepals, elliptic, ovate, or suborbiculate, 8–19 × 3–18 mm, proximally flat or saccate, scarcely to closely enfolding sepals, apex acute, emarginate, obtuse, or rounded.

Flowers

sepals 10–16 mm;

corolla pink, 32–52 mm.

sepals 10–15 mm;

corolla white, sometimes pink or purple-striped, 31–73 mm.

2n

= 22 [Asia, Europe].

Calystegia soldanella

Calystegia atriplicifolia

Phenology Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Open, sandy shores.
Elevation 0(–10) m. (0(–0) ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; VA; WA; BC; South America; w Europe; Asia; Africa; Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands, Tristan da Cunha); Pacific Islands (Galapagos, New Zealand); Australia
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Stems usually suberect or trailing, to 35 cm, sometimes almost absent; leaf blades mostly 40–60 mm wide; bracts 14–19 × 9–18 mm, proximally saccate, apex emarginate to rounded; corollas 40–73 mm.
subsp. atriplicifolia
1. Stems ascending-decumbent to erect, 10–50 cm; leaf blades mostly 20–40 mm wide; bracts 8–12 × 3–9 mm, proximally flat, apex acute to obtuse; corollas 31–44 mm.
subsp. buttensis
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. silvatica, C. spithamaea, C. stebbinsii, C. subacaulis, C. vanzuukiae
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, C. vanzuukiae
Subordinate taxa
C. atriplicifolia subsp. atriplicifolia, C. atriplicifolia subsp. buttensis
Synonyms Convolvulus soldanella
Name authority (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Prodr., 484. (1810) Hallier f.: Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 385, plate 13, fig. 2. (1897)
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