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

morning glory, Sierra false bindweed

Habit Perennials, rhizomatous. Perennials, rhizomatous.
Herbage

glabrous.

tomentose to villous.

Stems

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

ascending, decumbent, or procumbent, to 60(–100) cm.

Leaves

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

not in rosettes;

blade usually broadly to narrowly triangular, sometimes ± reniform, 30–60 × 30–90 mm, base lobed, lobes 1–3-pointed, margins not notably undulate, apex acuminate, acute, emarginate, or obtuse.

Bracts

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

usually immediately subtending sepals and lanceolate to broadly ovate, rarely to 7 mm distant from sepals and narrowly triangular to subreniform, (7–)10–18(–20) × (5–)7–14(–15) mm, lengths usually equal to or longer than sepals, margins entire, lobed, or toothed.

Flowers

sepals 10–16 mm;

corolla pink, 32–52 mm.

sepals 9–13(–15) mm, densely hairy;

corolla white, (20–)26–38(–45) mm.

2n

= 22 [Asia, Europe].

Calystegia soldanella

Calystegia malacophylla

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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California
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

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

Key
1. Herbage: hairs (dry) usually dull to golden brown, rarely grayish; leaf blades usually broadly triangular, sometimes ± reniform, 30–60 × 40–90 mm, basal lobes 2(–3)-pointed, apex usually acute or emarginate, sometimes acuminate; peduncles 3–5 cm.
subsp. malacophylla
1. Herbage: hairs (dry) usually gray, sometimes dull brown; leaf blades narrowly triangular, 30–45 × 30–40 mm, basal lobes 1(–2)-pointed, apex usu­ally acute, sometimes obtuse; peduncles 6–9 cm.
subsp. pedicellata
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. atriplicifolia, C. catesbeiana, C. collina, C. felix, C. hederacea, C. longipes, C. macounii, C. macrostegia, 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. malacophylla subsp. malacophylla, C. malacophylla subsp. pedicellata
Synonyms Convolvulus soldanella Convolvulus malacophyllus
Name authority (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Prodr., 484. (1810) (Greene) Munz: Suppl. Calif. Fl., 85. (1968)
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