3310

Herbaceous vine
Perennial

Native to North Carolina & possibly Georgia and/or South Carolina

Documented growing wild in GA? NC SC?

Rare (an endemic)

Look for it in shale barrens and woodlands, less typically on limestone, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White (rarely 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 (rarely 2-4) in lower leaf axils only

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p072?
• Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p270?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p199?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p236?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p236
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p130?

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Convolvulus stans   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calystegia spithamaea ssp. purshiana   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
Calystegia spithamaea ssp. stans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of Virginia (Weakley, Ludwig & Townsend, 2012)
Calystegia spithamaea ssp. stans

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-06-004:
Calystegia spithamaea   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Convolvulus purshianus

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Convolvulus spithamaeus