4263

Herbaceous vine, trailing or weakly twining
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon in Mountains, rare elsewhere

Look for it in longleaf pine savannas, marsh edges, openings in dry to dry-mesic montane forests, per Weakley's Flora

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...Variable ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
White
5-merous or rarely 4-merous
5 sepals
Shallowly 5-lobed (or merely wavy-edged) funnelform corolla
Superior ovary
Flowers solitary in lower or middle leaf axils

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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

• Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p075
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p072

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

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calystegia catesbeiana   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Calystegia catesbeiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Calystegia catesbeiana ssp. catesbeiana

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Calystegia spithamaea

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-06-003?:
Calystegia sericata   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Convolvulus sericatus