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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Convolvulus species 2 [=appalachianus]
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
The former Calystegia sepium has now been split out into several species, not to mention all now in the genus Convolvulus. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Key to the bindweeds (Calystegia/Convolvulus, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013)
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Calystegia sepium
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-06-002:
Calystegia sepium FAMILY Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Convolvulus sepium var. sepium
COMMON NAME:
Appalachian Bindweed
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JK Marlow jkm060506_047
May Oconee County SC
Clemson Forest
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JK Marlow jkm060506_047b
May Oconee County SC
Clemson Forest
Flowers solitary, funnel-shaped, with 5 shallow lobes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm090726_065
July Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm090726_075
July Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Stems trailing or twining, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm090726_078
July Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm090726_087
July Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Here ssp. appalachiana has strongly keeled bracts with overlapping bases, per Key to the Bindweeds (Calystegia/Convolvulus, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013).
COMPARE
sepals and bracts of Bindweed and Morning Glory
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JK Marlow jkm090726_091
July Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Basal leaf lobes of ssp. appalachiana often with 2-3 acute angles, per Key to the Bindweeds (Calystegia/Convolvulus, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Convolvulus species 2 [=appalachianus]
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Key to the bindweeds (Calystegia/Convolvulus, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013)
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
INCLUDED WITHIN
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Calystegia sepium
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-06-002:
Calystegia sepium
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Convolvulus sepium var. sepium
238
Herbaceous vine
Perennial
Habitat: woodland edges, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Common in Mountains, rare elsewhere
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pale pink
5-merous or rarely 4-merous
5 sepals
Shallowly 5-lobed (or merely wavy-edged) campanulate to funnelform corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary
Flowers solitary in leaf axils
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p384
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p324?
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p072
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p270
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p206
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p199
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p236
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p130
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