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Hill morning glory, hillside false bindweed

Pacific false bindweed, smooth western morning glory

Habit Perennials, rhizomatous. Subshrubs, rootstock woody.
Herbage

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

glabrous.

Stems

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

ascending-decumbent, trailing, or twining-climbing.

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 ± triangular to ovate-triangular, 15–50 mm, base lobed, lobes spreading, rounded or 2(–3)-pointed.

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.

3–10(–16) mm distant from sepals, linear, (2–)3–12(–16) × 0.4–1.5 mm, margins entire or proximally lobed or toothed.

Flowers

sepals 10–13 mm;

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

sepals 7–14 mm;

corolla white or cream to pale purple, usually purple-striped, (23–)26–46(–52) mm.

Calystegia subacaulis

Calystegia purpurata

Distribution
from USDA
California
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from USDA
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 the 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 strongly twining-climbing; leaf blades triangular, basal sinus V-shaped, apex acute; bract margins entire.
subsp. purpurata
1. Stems ascending-decumbent, trailing, or weakly twining-climbing; leaf blades ovate-triangular, basal sinus ± closed, apex emarginate to rounded; bract margins lobed or toothed.
subsp. saxicola
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. macounii, C. macrostegia, C. malacophylla, C. occidentalis, C. peirsonii, C. pubescens, 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. purpurata subsp. purpurata, C. purpurata subsp. saxicola
Synonyms Convolvulus subacaulis Convolvulus luteolus var. purpuratus, C. occidentalis var. purpuratus
Name authority Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy. 363. (1839) (Greene) Brummitt: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52: 214. (1965)
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