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Hill morning glory, hillside false bindweed

Macoun's false bindweed, Macoun's hedge bindweed

Habit Perennials, rhizomatous. Perennials, rhizomatous.
Herbage

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

puberulent.

Stems

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

usually ascending-decumbent, sometimes proximally erect, distally weakly twining-climbing, to 50–70 cm.

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 deltate, ovate, ovate-hastate, or ovate-lanceolate, 20–60 × 15–50 mm, base lobed, lobes ± rhombic, rounded, basal sinus rounded, apex rounded to subacute.

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, oval, ovate, or ovate-oblong, (12–)15–21(–27) × (8–)10–16(–20) mm, proximally flat or slightly saccate, apex usually obtuse, sometimes acute.

Flowers

sepals 10–13 mm;

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

sepals elliptic to ovate, 12–16 mm;

corolla white, (35–)40–52(–69) mm.

Calystegia subacaulis

Calystegia macounii

Phenology Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Grassy sites, including tall grass and mixed grass prairies, prairie slopes, disturbed sites, meadows, openings in woodlands, stream banks.
Elevation 400–2200 m. (1300–7200 ft.)
Distribution
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

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

Calystegia macounii is morphologically and geographically intermediate between C. catesbeiana and C. malacophylla and between C. malacophylla and C. spithamaea. It differs from C. sepium in habit and leaf shape; in the Great Plains area, it is most readily identifiable by its hairy herbage, C. sepium there being glabrous.

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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
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. atriplicifolia, C. catesbeiana, C. collina, C. felix, C. hederacea, C. longipes, 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
Synonyms Convolvulus subacaulis Convolvulus macounii
Name authority Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy. 363. (1839) (Greene) Brummitt: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52: 215. (1963)
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