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bindweed, morning-glory

dagger bindweed, Texas bindweed

Habit Annuals or perennials [shrubs], sometimes rhizomatous. Perennials.
Stems

usually decumbent to procumbent, sometimes ascending, erect, or trailing, seldom twining-climbing, glabrous or hairy, hairs not branched, glandular, or stellate.

usually decumbent to procumbent or trailing, rarely twining-climbing, to 10+ dm, densely to sparsely hairy.

Leaves

usually petiolate, rarely sessile;

blade deltate-ovate, oblong, oblanceolate, oblong-elliptic, elliptic, linear, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, ovate-deltate, triangular-lanceolate, or deltate, 10–100 mm, surfaces glabrous or hairy.

blades ± elliptic to triangular-lanceolate or linear and proximally lobed, 10–70 × 2–40 mm, length 1.7–5+ times width, base simple or palmately 2–6-lobed, margins entire or toothed, surfaces densely to sparsely hairy.

Inflorescences

flowers 2–5+ per peduncle [heads] or solitary;

pedicels 10–30 mm;

bracts scalelike, lanceolate, lance-linear, elliptic, linear, obovate, ovate, spatulate, or subulate.

flowers 1(–3) per peduncle;

bracts lance-linear to lanceolate, 1–3 mm.

Flowers

sepals elliptic, oblong, oblong-ovate, obovate, ovate, or suborbiculate, 3–12 mm;

corolla usually pink or white, sometimes tinged or striped with blue or pink, center sometimes purplish to reddish, campanulate to ± rotate, (4–)12–30 mm, limb 5-angled to 5-lobed;

ovary 2-locular;

style 1;

stigmas or stigma lobes 2, cylindric, linear, or spatulate, apices acute.

sepals elliptic, oblong, or ovate, 6–12 mm;

corolla pink or white, center sometimes purplish to reddish, campanulate to ± rotate, (15–)25–30 mm, limb 5-angled.

Fruits

capsular, ± globose, ovoid, or conic-ovoid, dehiscence valvate.

Seeds

1–4, trigonous or rounded, glabrous, surfaces granulate, papillulate, smooth, or tuberculate.

granulate or smooth.

x

= 12.

2n

= 24.

Convolvulus

Convolvulus equitans

Phenology Flowering year-round.
Habitat Grasslands, hills, plains.
Elevation 0–2000 m. [0–6600 ft.]
Distribution
from USDA
North America; Mexico; South America; Eurasia; Africa; Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands); Australia [Introduced in Pacific Islands (Hawaii)]
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from FNA
AL; AR; AZ; CO; KS; NE; NM; OK; TX; UT; Mexico
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Discussion

Species 190 (4 in the flora).

Convolvulus althaeoides Linnaeus (collected in California in 1941, 1942, and 1950), C. cneorum Linnaeus, C. sabatius Viviani var. mauritanicus (Bossier) Sa’ad (cultivated as C. mauritanicus Boissier), and C. tricolor Linnaeus are widely cultivated; none of them is known to be established or recurrent in the flora area.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

In the flora area, Convolvulus hermanniae L’Héritier and C. incanus Vahl were long misapplied to C. equitans, and plants of C. crenatifolius were formerly identified as C. equitans.

B. L. Turner (2009) indicated that Convolvulus carrii differs from C. equitans by having herbage more densely silvery-hairy, leaf blades thicker and with veins more pronounced, peduncles longer, seeds smoother, and habitat restricted to fine sands in southern Texas, but these differences are not regarded here as significant.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Parent taxa Convolvulaceae Convolvulaceae > Convolvulus
Sibling taxa
C. arvensis, C. crenatifolius, C. simulans
Subordinate taxa
C. arvensis, C. crenatifolius, C. equitans, C. simulans
Key
1. Annuals; corollas 4–6 mm, limb 5-lobed.
C. simulans
1. Perennials; corollas 11–30 mm, limb 5-angled.
→ 2
2. Sepals 3–4.5 mm.
C. arvensis
2. Sepals 6–12 mm.
→ 3
3. Flowers 1(–3) per peduncle; sepals oblong to ovate, 6–12 mm; corollas (15–)25–30 mm.
C. equitans
3. Flowers (1–)3–5+ per peduncle; sepals ± elliptic, 6–7 mm; corollas 11–15(–18) mm.
C. crenatifolius
Synonyms C. carrii, C. equitans var. lindheimeri, C. hermannioides
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 153. (1753): Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 76. (1754) Bentham: Pl. Hartw., 16. (1839)
Source FNA vol. 14. Treatment author: Daniel F. Austin†. FNA vol. 14. Treatment author: Daniel F. Austin†.
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