Evolvulus sericeus |
Evolvulus convolvuloides |
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silky evolvulus, silver dwarf morning-glory |
bindweed dwarf morning-glory |
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Habit | Perennials or subshrubs; herbage hairy, hairs appressed to ± spreading. | Annuals or perennials; herbage glabrous or sparsely hairy and glabrescent, hairs appressed. |
Stems | ascending or procumbent, 10–30 cm. |
usually procumbent or prostrate, sometimes decumbent, 10–30+ 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 usually ovate, rarely lanceolate or ± orbiculate, 8–25 × 5–15 mm. |
Inflorescences | flowers solitary; peduncles plus pedicels stout, 0–2(–4) mm. |
2- or 3-flowered or flowers solitary; peduncles plus pedicels filiform, 10–25+ 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, lanceolate-ovate, or oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm; corolla pale blue or white, campanulate or rotate, limb 8–10 mm diam. |
Evolvulus sericeus |
Evolvulus convolvuloides |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Oct. | Flowering May–Feb. |
Habitat | Oak woodlands, desert grasslands, plains, savannas, pinelands, chaparral. | Saline beaches, limestone, hammocks. |
Elevation | 0–1900 m. [0–6200 ft.] | 0–10 m. [0–30 ft.] |
Distribution |
AR; AZ; FL; GA; LA; NM; TN; TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies
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FL; LA; South America; West Indies |
Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
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Synonyms | E. macilentus | Nama convolvuloides, E. glaber |
Name authority | Swartz: Prodr., 55. (1788) | (Willdenow) Stearn: Taxon 21: 649. (1972) |
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