Calystegia subacaulis |
Calystegia purpurata |
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Hill morning glory, hillside false bindweed |
Pacific false bindweed, smooth western morning glory |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous. | Subshrubs, rootstock woody. | ||||||||
Herbage | moderately to sparsely hairy, hairs appressed, retrorse, or spreading. |
glabrous. |
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Stems | ascending-decumbent, to 20–30 cm or almost absent. |
ascending-decumbent, trailing, or twining-climbing. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Calystegia subacaulis |
Calystegia purpurata |
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Distribution |
California
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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 the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Calystegia | Convolvulaceae > Calystegia | ||||||||
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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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