Evolvulus sericeus |
Evolvulus alsinoides |
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silky evolvulus, silver dwarf morning-glory |
ojo de víbora, slender dwarf morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials or subshrubs; herbage hairy, hairs appressed to ± spreading. | Perennials; herbage loosely hairy to glabrate, hairs erect to spreading. |
Stems | ascending or procumbent, 10–30 cm. |
usually ascending, rarely procumbent, 6–50 cm. |
Leaves | distichous, distals ± spreading; blade elliptic, lanceolate, oblong, or ovate, 4–25 × 2–10 mm, surfaces: abaxial densely hairy, adaxial sparsely hairy or glabrate. |
blade elliptic, lanceolate, oblong, or ovate, 8–22 × 3.5–11 mm. |
Inflorescences | flowers solitary; peduncles plus pedicels stout, 0–2(–4) mm. |
2-flowered or flowers solitary; peduncles plus pedicels filiform, (12–)25–50+ mm. |
Flowers | sepals oblong to lanceolate, 3–5 mm; corolla pale blue, violet, or white, rotate to broadly funnelform, limb 7–12 mm diam. 2n = 26 (Argentina). |
sepals lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm, abaxially glabrous or pilose; corolla pale blue or white, rotate, limb (5–)7–10 mm diam. 2n = 26 (Asia). |
Evolvulus sericeus |
Evolvulus alsinoides |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Oct. | Flowering Feb–Dec. |
Habitat | Oak woodlands, desert grasslands, plains, savannas, pinelands, chaparral. | Pine-oak woodlands, saguaro desert scrub, desert grasslands, disturbed sites, xeric and rocky sites. |
Elevation | 0–1900 m. (0–6200 ft.) | 0–1900 m. (0–6200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AR; AZ; FL; GA; LA; NM; TN; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies
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AL; AZ; FL; NM; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America
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Discussion | Presence of Evolvulus alsinoides was reported for Alabama by C. T. Mohr (1901). Its presence in Missouri has not been confirmed. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Evolvulus | Convolvulaceae > Evolvulus |
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Synonyms | E. macilentus | Convolvulus alsinoides, E. alsinoides var. angustifolius, E. alsinoides var. grisebachianus, E. alsinoides var. hirticaulis |
Name authority | Swartz: Prodr., 55. (1788) | (Linnaeus) Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1: 392. (1762) |
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