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Hill morning glory, hillside false bindweed

night-blooming morning-glory, nightblooming false bindweed

Habit Perennials, rhizomatous. Perennials, rhizomatous.
Herbage

moderately to sparsely hairy, hairs appressed, retrorse, or spreading.

glabrous.

Stems

ascending-decumbent, to 20–30 cm or almost absent.

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

Leaves

in basal rosettes or not;

blade rounded-deltate to triangular-hastate, 30–40 mm, base usually cuneate, sometimes lobed, lobes retrorse, 1-pointed or rounded, margins not or weakly undulate, apex acuminate, acute, rounded, or subacute.

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, lanceolate, oblong, or broadly ovate, 7–17 × 1.5–9 mm, shorter, or slightly longer, than sepals, proximally usually flat, sometimes keeled, apex usually rounded, sometimes acute.

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 10–13 mm;

corolla white or cream, sometimes pink- to purplish-striped or -tinged, 33–62 mm.

sepals 10–15 mm;

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

Calystegia subacaulis

Calystegia atriplicifolia

Distribution
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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.)

Subspecies 2 (2 in flora).

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

Key
1. Herbage moderately to sparsely hairy, hairs retrorse to spreading; stems almost absent or to 2 cm; leaves in basal rosettes, blade apices usually rounded to acuminate, sometimes subacute; bracts (4–)6–9 mm wide.
subsp. subacaulis
1. Herbage sparsely hairy, hairs appressed; stems ascending-decumbent, to 20–30 cm; leaves not in basal rosettes, blade apices acute; bracts 1.5–4 mm wide.
subsp. episcopalis
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. soldanella, C. spithamaea, C. stebbinsii, 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. subacaulis subsp. episcopalis, C. subacaulis subsp. subacaulis
C. atriplicifolia subsp. atriplicifolia, C. atriplicifolia subsp. buttensis
Synonyms Convolvulus subacaulis
Name authority Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy. 363. (1839) Hallier f.: Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 385, plate 13, fig. 2. (1897)
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