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Hill morning glory, hillside false bindweed

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

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.

usually prostrate or trailing, sometimes twining-climbing, to 100(–250) 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 ± reniform, 15–35(–45) × 20–60(–70) mm, ± fleshy), base ± cuneate, apex emarginate or 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, ovate to suborbiculate, 7–16 × 5–10 mm, proximally flat, ± enfolding sepals.

Flowers

sepals 10–13 mm;

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

sepals 10–16 mm;

corolla pink, 32–52 mm.

2n

= 22 [Asia, Europe].

Calystegia subacaulis

Calystegia soldanella

Phenology Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Open, sandy shores.
Elevation 0(–10) m. (0(–0) ft.)
Distribution
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California
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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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Discussion

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
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. purpurata, C. sepium, C. silvatica, C. spithamaea, C. stebbinsii, C. subacaulis, C. vanzuukiae
Subordinate taxa
C. subacaulis subsp. episcopalis, C. subacaulis subsp. subacaulis
Synonyms Convolvulus subacaulis Convolvulus soldanella
Name authority Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy. 363. (1839) (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Prodr., 484. (1810)
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