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Hill morning glory, hillside false bindweed

Van Zuuk false bindweed, Van Zuuk's morning-glory

Habit Perennials, rhizomatous. Perennials, rhizomatous.
Herbage

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

glabrate or hairy, hairs minute, appressed or ascending.

Stems

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

trailing or weakly twining-climbing, to 100 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 ± triangular-hastate (daggerlike), 20–40 mm, middle lobe ± lance-linear, (1–)2–7(–9) mm wide, base lobed, lobes 1–2-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.

1–2 mm distant from sepals, linear, 5–16(–20) × 0.5–1.5 mm, proximally flat, 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 ovate to elliptic, 9–11 × 4–6 mm, apices obtuse-apiculate;

corolla white, 27–36 mm.

Calystegia subacaulis

Calystegia vanzuukiae

Phenology Flowering Mar–Sep.
Habitat Gabbro or serpentine soils, chaparral, mixed or coniferous woodlands, foothills.
Elevation 800–1200 m. (2600–3900 ft.)
Distribution
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California
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from FNA
CA
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. soldanella, C. spithamaea, C. stebbinsii, C. subacaulis
Subordinate taxa
C. subacaulis subsp. episcopalis, C. subacaulis subsp. subacaulis
Synonyms Convolvulus subacaulis
Name authority Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy. 363. (1839) Brummitt & Namoff: Aliso 31: 16, figs. 2–5. (2013)
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