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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Convolvulus spithamaeus
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calystegia spithamaea ssp. spithamaea
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-06-004?:
Calystegia spithamaea
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Convolvulus spithamaeus
COMMON NAME:
Low Bindweed, Upright Bindweed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cosp6_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Convolvulus spithamaeus
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calystegia spithamaea ssp. spithamaea
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-06-004?:
Calystegia spithamaea
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Convolvulus spithamaeus
3490
Herbaceous vine
Perennial
Native north of the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in - - -
Look for it in dry limestone areas, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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 the Southern Mountains p130?