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Hill morning glory, hillside false bindweed

low false bindweed, upright false bindweed

Habit Perennials, rhizomatous. Perennials, rhizomatous.
Herbage

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

glabrate or tomentose, hairs sometimes whitish.

Stems

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

erect, 10–35(–50) 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 narrowly to broadly elliptic, to 80 × 35 mm, base cuneate, rounded, or lobed, lobes rounded or ± 1-pointed, to 11 mm.

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.

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.

Calystegia subacaulis

Calystegia spithamaea

Distribution
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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.)

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. Habit ± lax; herbage glabrate to pubescent; leaf blades ultimately ± flat.
subsp. spithamaea
1. Habit ± compact; herbage tomentose, hairs sometimes whitish; leaf blades ± conduplicate.
→ 2
2. Leaf blade bases usually lobed, lobes to 5(–6) mm, sometimes cuneate; corollas (38–)43–59(–64) mm; plants (10–)15–35(–40 cm).
subsp. stans
2. Leaf blade bases lobed, lobes 4–11 mm; corollas 35–47(–53) mm; plants (15–)25–35(–40) cm.
subsp. purshiana
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. soldanella, C. stebbinsii, C. subacaulis, C. vanzuukiae
Subordinate taxa
C. subacaulis subsp. episcopalis, C. subacaulis subsp. subacaulis
C. spithamaea subsp. purshiana, C. spithamaea subsp. spithamaea, C. spithamaea subsp. stans
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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