Calystegia subacaulis |
Calystegia spithamaea |
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Hill morning glory, hillside false bindweed |
low false bindweed, upright false bindweed |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous. | Perennials, rhizomatous. | ||||||||||||
Herbage | moderately to sparsely hairy, hairs appressed, retrorse, or spreading. |
glabrate or tomentose, hairs sometimes whitish. |
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Stems | ascending-decumbent, to 20–30 cm or almost absent. |
erect, 10–35(–50) cm. |
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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 narrowly to broadly elliptic, to 80 × 35 mm, base cuneate, rounded, or lobed, lobes rounded or ± 1-pointed, to 11 mm. |
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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. |
immediately subtending sepals, lance-ovate, oblong, or oval, (13–)16–25(–29) × 8–14(–20) mm, proximally flat or ± keeled, apex acute to obtuse, closely enfolding sepals. |
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Flowers | sepals 10–13 mm; corolla white or cream, sometimes pink- to purplish-striped or -tinged, 33–62 mm. |
sepals 12–17 mm; corolla white, 35–63(–67) mm. |
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Calystegia subacaulis |
Calystegia spithamaea |
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Distribution |
California
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e North America; c North America
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 3 (3 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 spithamaeus | ||||||||||||
Name authority | Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy. 363. (1839) | (Linnaeus) Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 143. (1813) | ||||||||||||
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